Re: How Sticky Are CableModem AUPs?

On 2006-08-31, ynotssor <ynotssor@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Shoplift a $9 item from a store and it's stealing, with legal consequences
that include a criminal record. Tell me someone got a criminal citation for
operating a server without paying the commercial premium charged by their
ISP. You can't.

Just because an entity doesn't bring criminal charges doesn't mean it's
not theft. Shoplifting a $9 item from a store only has legal consequences
if the store reports you to the police; an ISP terminating your account
is akin to the store telling you not to come back. It's still theft,
even if there are no legal consequences.

To draw out the analogy further, if you return to the store even
after you were told to stay out, they might press charges; similarly,
if you sign up for another account with that same ISP (say, with
a different or fake name), and they caught you running a server again,
they might press charges. (It's probably a bit harder to return to
your ISP which terminated you than to return to the store, though.)

--keith

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