RE: [BLUG] Open wireless connections

Opening your wireless is indeed a risk, but there are some strange benefits
of doing this besides the grass-roots ideology of free and open network
access. It appears that it can actually be used to provide a plausible
deniability defense when the RIAA comes knocking on your door for copyright
infringement.
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20060727/1131227.shtml

Overall, open your network at your own risk. You might be inviting the RIAA
in your front door and have to use this defense tactic as a last resort. I
don't think I'll take the chance.

Dirk

-----Original Message-----
From: Paul Purdom [mailto:pwp@cs.indiana.edu]
Sent: Wednesday, August 06, 2008 12:45 PM
To: Bloomington LINUX Users Group
Subject: Re: [BLUG] Open wireless connections

Steven Black wrote
>
> If you ever plan to actually *need* bandwidth to do work, then you need
> to be aware that when you need the bandwidth may conflict with when your
> neighbor needs to watch that movie from Netflix. There's nothing like
> other people streaming media to soak up your bandwidth.
>
I guess I need bandwidth occasionally, but not most of the time. I am
guessing that there must be a software solution to control who gets how
much bandwidth when I need control. (Perhaps, there is already an answer
to that question. On the road, I have not yet had time to read the more
detailed replies with full understanding.)

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