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Accessing it may be illegal. It may also be illegal to marry outside your race. That's completely irrelevant to the question at hand. The question is, is it stealing to connect to a server. The answer is no.
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The reason it is (sometimes?) illegal is that someone somewhere made an argument that it was stealing, probably, so the answer is not unambiguously "no"
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Ignorance of technology is not my problem. The fact is, it's a server, exactly like a web server. It is neither stealing nor hacking to access that server.
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Depends on location. Were I inside the NSA and plugging in, yeah, I'd be in trouble.
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Tell me, who gave you permission to access bautforum.com? You pointed your web browser to this address. Your browser looked up an IP address. Your browser sent an HTTP request to port 80. The web server responded. The response of the web server is your permission. If they were to whine about how you hacked into BAUT or stole their bandwidth, we'd all have a good laugh.
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The BA and Fraser have certainly given explicit general invitations to access bautforum.com, so it's not the same thing at all. Webpages in general are not always so explicit, true, but there certainly is more of an invitation than from my neighbors's wifi