Uplink for airplanes is not free by any means. Regardless of the criminality a real world analog would be more akin to someone taking a chair in a starbucks wi

Uplink for airplanes is not free by any means. Regardless of the criminality a real world analog would be more akin to someone taking a chair in a starbucks without paying - maybe there's room, and maybe it doesnt burden them unduly - but the company definitely pays a cost for each table aggregated across its customers.