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Selling Your Wireless Traffic to Passers-By

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the just-don't-forget-to-ssh dept.

An anonymous reader submitted a bit about a company called Joltage who wants to make it so that home and business users can make a few bucks by selling their excess bandwidth to people who just happen to be in the neighborhood. Besides the obvious security issues, and the serious lack of coverage once you get out of metropolitan areas, this could be seriously cool.

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  1. Re:License Agreement Problems by isa-kuruption · · Score: 1, Flamebait
    Marriam Webster's definition of "illegal"

    Main Entry: 1illegal
    Pronunciation: (")i(l)-'lE-g&l
    Function: adjective
    Etymology: Middle French or Medieval Latin; Middle French illegal, from Medieval Latin illegalis, from Latin in- + legalis legal
    Date: 1538
    : not according to or authorized by law : UNLAWFUL, ILLICIT; also : not sanctioned by official rules (as of a game)


    Specifically, we're interested in:

    not sanctioned by official rules

    In which case, the License Agreement are the "rules" as defined by the contract. Violating the "rules of the contract" is therefore illegal in the definition of the word, although not in the definition of the law.