![]() ![]() If you are legally sharing your WiFi, then you are a service provider, and under current laws you are not liable for what others do with the service. While it is true that they can go after you, there are valid legal defenses for this - as has been discussed for years. ![]() The Chronicle writer says Tim is missing the real security issue, about how the RIAA can go after you if someone downloads music on your open WiFi. The latest debate on this issue comes from a tech writer at the Houston Chronicle who is taking Tim Lee to task for an op-ed piece Tim wrote in the New York Times about open WiFi. It's one of the popular open WiFi horror stories - but is it true? Well, of course, you can be arrested, but it's unlikely that there would be any legal grounds for the arrest. ![]() For years, whenever the press has written one of their fear-mongering stories about open WiFi, they almost always include some tidbit about how if someone uses your network to do something illegal, you can be arrested for it.
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