[wsfii-discuss] It is treating Wi-Fi as communal property when it is not.....
Rob Dyke
rob at comwifinet.com
Tue Feb 7 10:09:47 UTC 2006
"It is treating Wi-Fi as communal property when it is not....."
from Reuters yesterday (and also /.)
More from our favorite search company.....
http://today.reuters.co.uk/news/NewsArticle.aspx?
type=businessNews&storyID=uri:
2006-02-05T215326Z_01_N05128749_RTRUKOC_0_UK-TELECOMS-
FON.xml&pageNumber=1&summit
"Internet subscribers who install Fon software to make their wireless
routers able to share bandwidth with other Fon users are then allowed
to freely roam the Fon network around town or world-wide and find
wireless connections as they go.
Wi-Fi was first popularised by grass-roots technology advocates in
high-tech centres around the world, who sought to create shared
neighbourhood networks. It is this grass-roots spirit that Fon seeks
to tap.
"That's a great idea, but you are breaking the law," Ovum's Entner
said flatly. "It is treating Wi-Fi as communal property when it is not."
While sharing Wi-Fi connections remains commonplace among consumers,
the situation exists because ISPs have, by and large, been reluctant
to enforce their user agreements banning this."
I would like to see us who hack free infrastructure and communicate
the methods to others continue to support the goals of communal
communications infrastructure and beat down the corporatisation of
our commons.
Go Freifunk! Go WSFII!
Rob Dyke
Comwifinet Limited
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