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Originally Posted by BenMcr
Main problem is the legal position surely?
Normal guest networks generate traffic on your own connection, so an activity is your responsibility.
So for a 'free hotspot' to work properly it has to be obviously separate from your own usage.
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And that's exactly how BT do it.
The 'free hotspot' that BT runs on their Home Hubs are firstly separated from your home network and secondly tunnelled via a separate, encrypted tunnel with its own isolated bandwidth to a BT commercial gateway, so it doesn't even appear to be coming from your ISP let alone your IP.
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Originally Posted by Kushan
The legal position is a funny one, I don't think there's an answer to it yet. It boils down to "does an IP address identify a person?" and the jury is out on that one. I have heard the argument that if you want to do something dodgy on your connection, to leave a wireless network open so you've got deniability of it all but I've got no idea how that would hold up in court.
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If you want to do it yourself - that may apply.
As the proposal is this is being done by the internet provider, communication providers have exemptions under law provided they follow given procedures.
Since it's the ISP and not you that's doing it, the ISP has liability and as mentioned that liability is limited anyway.
In other words, legally, it's got nothing to do with you so nothing for you to worry about.