[wsfii-discuss] It is treating Wi-Fi as communal property when it is not.....

Tue Feb 7 14:09:40 UTC 2006

On Tue, Feb 07, 2006 at 10:09:47AM +0000, Rob Dyke wrote:
> "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  

What is breaking the law? Free networks or Fon? Where is the proof
that law is broken?

CL<
> 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
> 
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