Man Convicted For Helping Thousands Steal Internet Access

angry tapir writes "An Oregon man has been convicted of seven courts of wire fraud for helping thousands of people steal Internet service. Ryan Harris, 26, of Redmond, Oregon, was convicted by a jury in U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts. He faces a prison term of up to 20 years and a fine of up to $250,000 on each of the seven counts."

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Re:hrm

[Forty Two Tenfold]

Are you really as retarded as you are making yourself out to be, or do you actually not understand something this basic?

It's you who's retarded here and asshole as well. Getting a free ride on the bus and not paying for it is actually an apt analogy.

By using an ISP's connection without paying for it, you aren't piggybacking on another person's packets, you're using up the limited* space in the pipe. By not paying, and essentially being an unknown factor to the business providing the pipe, you are lowering the quality of service for everyone else. If not through using bandwidth that wasn't accounted for, it's by delaying their packets with your own, during an especially congested time.

By taking a free ride you're using the service, "crowding up" the bus, not putting in for the maintenance, thus reducing profit. Also if you take someone's invention they spent money developing and sell it cheaply you're robbing them of expected profit.

Feeling retarded yet, asshole?