November 29th, 2009, 2:39PM in Internet by Marc LequimeView Comments
A pub owner in the UK has been fined £8,000 ($13,000) for someone illegally downloading copyrighted content from their free WiFi hotspot, says Graham Cove, the managing director of hotspot supplier The Cloud.
Graham believe this case to be the very first of its kind, yet will not identify the pub concerned, because the owner has not allowed him to reveal the details of the case yet.
This is just a start to some pretty serious issues that could begin to affect the idea of free WiFi – it's almost as if this was set up to crush the idea of freedom and being able to access WiFi anywhere. It's funny that someone would get punished for supplying the public with something free. Also, it's like arresting a shopkeeper because someone stole from their store. Doesn't work like that.
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