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Old 22-December-2008, 06:02 PM
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Originally Posted by Chuck View Post
Does that mean if I walk past someone's house and can smell the flowers in his yard, I'm stealing?
No, but if you take some of the flowers from his yard, you are.

When you hack into someone's wi-fi and use it to get on the internet, you are using up bandwidth inside his house. You're not just grabbing electrons that he let out into the air, you are actually using up bandwidth and thus preventing him from being able to utilize it himself.
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