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Originally posted by Dottore
See above post. Is this correct? I don't think that I am "stealing" his internet access. I think I am merely using what he is making available to me. Interesting legal issue!

Not really an interesting legal issue. I believe there is a specific law for it. It's not something that no one has tested before.

Imagine this, the guy pays $50 a month for 1.5Mb internet access. One night he notices that his internet access seems slow. Hmm, it seems that the ISP says "you are pulling the whole 1.5Mb." It seems that he's paying for 1.5Mb, but he's only getting .2Mb because 5 other people are on his wifi and are using the rest of his bandwidth.