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August 24, 2007

Is the jury still out?

Long article on the bbc news about freeloading/borrowing/accessing/stealing other peoples bandwith by logging onto their wireless signal. It is illigal. But the article investigates if it is immoral. Some people seems to think if you are travelling and you are just checking your email, it is OK to borrow bandwith. Others are not so sure. Can you be just a little bit pregnant, or it is a binary thing? Hard to say if there are shades of grey on this one. Full article here.

Posted by on August 24, 2007 at 10:11 PM in Ethics on the Web |

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Jason Reid

I can't see why taking something that isn't secured wrong. If people don't want to share then they can put a password on the system. Anyway what makes something wrong? In an evolutionary system, isn't something that is weak wrong?

Posted by: Jason Reid | August 31, 2007 at 09:44 AM

Beth

I don't agree with this position - it would put us back to caveman times, where only strength rules. The whole body of law, the justice system, is to protect the weak so that strong people don't grab everything. It is called civilization.

Posted by: Beth | September 09, 2007 at 10:43 PM

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