On Tue, 2004-09-21 at 12:41 -0700, Warren Harrison wrote: > actually, there is an Oregon statue: > > > 164.125 Theft of services. (1) A person commits the crime of theft > of services if: > (a) With intent to avoid payment therefor, the person obtains > services that are available only for compensation, by force, threat, > deception or other means to avoid payment for the services; or It would seem to my un-legally-trained mind that "available only only for compensation" would exclude open or unsecured access points. The operator of the access point is not providing service for compensation, so no theft has occurred. Unless it were to cause some interruption of the operator's service, the operator has been done no harm. I could see that the case my be made if service were metered rather than flat bandwidth and it could be shown that the allegedly illegal use put the operator over his monthly minimum. Wil -- Wil Cooley wcooley@private Naked Ape Consulting http://nakedape.cc
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