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Fonera 2 To Launch With Extended Functionality
The next installment in the Fonera router family is set to make its debut in a couple of weeks, and the additions to the hardware are relatively impressive. Promising full support for networked storage, automatic downloads, sharing of a USB 3G connection, and a few other perks in addition to the normal range of functionality found in the Fonera routers this package packs quite a punch. "Like the original Fonera and Fonera+ routers, the principals of this hippie-love-in-styled product still apply. You buy the router and hook it up to your internet connection as normal. The trick is that the router shares a part of your bandwidth on a public-facing connection. Other Fon owners can log in and use this public network for free. In turn, you — as a Fonera owner — can travel the world and use other Fon hotspots. It's a neat idea and everybody wins, except the money-grabbing telcos."
Would have a hotspot open to all.
Not just the evil consumers that evilly used their evil money to buy the evil Fonera.
It does this all without a computer, so once you have it set up you can take your laptop out on the road and look forward to a new episode of Criminal Minds when you get home.
Why must people continuously tout the ability of these devices to aid in copyright infringement? Before you stop reading here, consider this: I'm posting this from an Ubuntu laptop. I publish all my software under the GPL and BSD licenses. I publish 99% of my other content under Creative Commons attribution-only licenses. So I'm doing my part to make the IP scene a nicer place.
All that said, it's ridiculous how many people would scream bloody murder over a GPL violation, while they're downloading someone else's content without the publisher's permission. This is beyond dumb, and it's precisely the reason BitTorrent is so poorly regarded by many publishers and ISPs. Yeah, I actually use it to download ISOs and other legal stuff, but to specifically encourage people to use it in ways that defy the law is idiocy.
People can't demand that their own rights be respected while they trample on those of others.
512 MB RAM, 20 GB disk, 200 GB transfer, five datacenters. $19.95/month.
Just about every ISP has wording that would make sharing the connection against the ToS. Will they ever find out, probably not unless your neighbor is the network admin. The real concern in my opinion is the responsibility you are taking allowing a complete stranger to utilize your connection. You're the subscriber, the ISP knows who YOU are. Even if you can't legally be held accountable, I'm sure you can have a good chunk of your time wasted by having to testify in court that your Wifi was being anonymously shared.
The real concern in my opinion is the responsibility you are taking allowing a complete stranger to utilize your connection.
I live in the United States. I've been using my home internet connection to run a Tor exit node for... three? six? months now. I have yet to hear an official complaint from anyone.
The problem with your theory is this: You assume that the cops, the prosecutors, and the judge are all going to be perfectly logical and reasonable about this, which has frankly become the Red Scare of the 21st century. You know what they say about assuming, right?
The fact is the line stops at YOUR house. it is your door they will kick in, your computers they will take and possibly never give back, it is your name that will be in the papers the next morning, and it is YOUR ass that better have the money for a good lawyer or YOU are screwed. Did you honestly think anybody in their right mind would believe the crap like "Chuck Norris doing satanic rituals" in the McMartin case? And how many years did they rot in jail? 3? 4?
You can't assume everyone with power is going to be reasonable or logical, especially with a hot button issue like this. As someone who has dealt with some seriously nasty cops I can tell you for a fact that some of them are mean motor scooters that would be happy to crack your head for a lot less than being a suspected kiddie fiddler. And if the prosecutor is running for reelection? Like an earlier poster said the proven innocent text ends up on page 10, while the charges make front page. If you are willing to bet 30 years of your life on everyone else being logical and reasonable, go for it.
But after spending many years of my life living on the wrong side of the tracks and seeing the supposed good guys do some seriously bad shit I know I ain't betting MY ass on their compassion, honesty, or detective skills. Or that a prosecutor is going to care more about my poor white ass being innocent than their own career.
ACs don't waste your time replying, your posts are never seen by me.
Seems you haven't checked for a long time, Bills don't pay anymore for using For network. The status can be changed 2 times a year AFAI remember.
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