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Originally Posted by matthewota
Wireless internet is so new that the laws vary from location to location. In more developed areas of the USA there are entire cities that allow free internet access through their wireless transmitters. Fullerton and Hermosa Beach in California, for example.
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My bold. These are places where the access is explicitly granted, probably because bandwidth is paid for by forcing the users to look at ads for local businesses, so are utterly irrelevant to the legality of using someone's unsecured router.
If you're using a resource they paid for without their permission it's theft.
The smelling flowers analogy is invalid, since there's nothing in it to take the role of the used bandwidth from the internet connection.
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