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Don’t the terms of service for nearly all consumer ISPs explicitly prohibit sharing or reselling?
by WALoeIII 4y ago
Don’t the terms of service for nearly all consumer ISPs explicitly prohibit sharing or reselling?
- Nextgrid 4y agoWho cares? It's not like a packet that's a result of sharing/reselling suddenly "weighs" more on the network wires.
- adrr 4y agoPeople running the hotspots should care, they could get prosecuted for unauthorized access of their ISPs network. Sharing you connection is not authorized. Don't like it, lobby to change the law but what they are doing is explicitly illegal.
- prepend 4y agoThe odds of that happening is negligible. I suppose ISPs could try to make an example of a few customers. But I think that would be horrible PR as well as very difficult to prove. How would they distinguish traffic that’s authorized and unauthorized? As their customer, how much do you think I can authorize? Can I grant my guests access? Can my smart lightbulbs access?
- JumpCrisscross 4y ago> Who cares? The people purchasing these hot spots, who find their bankruptcy claims against Helium being inhibited by intentional breach of contract. > not like a packet that's a result of sharing/reselling suddenly "weighs" more It does due to peering arrangements. Data transfer having value is also Helium’s claimed value added. It’s awkward to claim it costs nothing to implement but has value that can be sustainably charged.
- aetherane 4y agoYou probably don't want someone distributing something like child porn over your home network
- twic 4y agoA classic business model - "we steal it, and pass the savings on to you!"