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I wouldn't advocate for breaking any laws or stealing anything that doesn't belong to you, but a whole lot of places have "totally unused bandwidth" and it won'
by brianwski 8y ago
I wouldn't advocate for breaking any laws or stealing anything that doesn't belong to you, but a whole lot of places have "totally unused bandwidth" and it won't hurt them at all financially for you to use 1/4 of their unused capacity.
Funny story: I'm kind of unusual that I run an open WiFi hotspot in my home, because I have plenty of unused bandwidth and guests in my house and even neighbors are welcome to borrow some of it anytime. But one of my neighbors one time downloaded illegal content on my WiFi (the exact name of the "True Blood" episode was included, with a date and time), and I got a "cease and desist" letter from the ISP. (sigh) I felt it was pretty rude of my neighbor. I mean, just because I leave my car door open in my driveway doesn't mean it isn't rude of you to use my car as a getaway car in a robbery, you know?
- superhuzza 8y agotragedy_of_the_commons.torrent
- viraptor 8y ago> and it won't hurt them at all financially for you to use 1/4 of their unused capacity. Unless they have data caps in their contact and you go over them. Or they monitor for anomalies and data leaks and the IT will come asking questions / reporting incident. If you don't know everything about the setup and have an approval, don't do it.
- jrace 8y agoThat is why you must secure your network. Depending on where you live you could be criminally responsible. What if one of your neighbors is sharing child-pornography?