Sorry, but that is a big strawman. He never said "taking a seat is the definition of theft of services", he was replying to what made both of your examples thef

Sorry, but that is a big strawman. He never said "taking a seat is the definition of theft of services", he was replying to what made both of your examples theft of services. The difference is obvious and you know it. Cable theft should probably not be called theft, because it is a combination of trespassing (to get the cable hooked up) and copyright infringement. Possibly, but I don't know the tech that well, it costs more to push the signal to more endpoints, which actually does work into theft of service then...