Court finds Wi-Fi network owner not guilty of pirating

[Wesley]

The Finnish Anti-Piracy Centre (FAPC) wanted to claim €6000 from the woman (approximately R64,000) for some piracy that took place over a twelve-minute period. What was actually shared has never been mentioned outside the courts, but recently the case came to a head and the judge rules that the woman was not guilty. But what this means for other cases all around the planet is a bit unclear.

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[wir]

Suddenly everyone has an open wifi network.

Also, you've got a "Germeny" in the 4th paragraph. Oh there are a few "it's"s missing their apostrophes. I feel like a bit of an ass now I'll stop. Though, it's an article so I hope it's more helpful than ass-y.

[Wesley]

Thanks! Fixed Germany and I'll get to the its later :-)

Also, when I was at college I found that MacDonald's across the road had an open Wi-Fi network. I took control over all their office printers and had them print in pink a message saying that they should really watch out next time, or it could be all their data cap. A week later, it was a secure hotspot.

Sitting by my PC now, I can see three open networks around me and one with WEP. I wish I could figure out which houses those were.

[Banlam]

...I wish I could figure out which houses those were.

Print messages to their printers (if they have) telling them to come outside.

[Wesley]

Print messages to their printers (if they have) telling them to come outside.

Point taken, I'll do that sometime :-)

[Acinixys]

Point taken, I'll do that sometime :-)

Oh man, maximum trolling potential.

"Greetings Agent, this is you handler. You have been activated. Please go outside at 20:00 Hours tonight and await your pickup."

[Wesley]

Oh man, maximum trolling potential.

"Greetings Agent, this is you handler. You have been activated. Please go outside at 20:00 Hours tonight and await your pickup."

The aliens are coming! Run for your lives!!! Trolololol

[Toxxyc]

A few of us buddies back in our matric days used a fairly extensive Delphi program one of us wrote (no names will be mentioned) to pick up about 1,000 routers in our area with WiFi enabled. The guy is pretty smart with PC's, so he used a hole in Windows' code (before Win7 or Vista, this was still on XP) to find out where signals where coming from (I used to know this, don't anymore unfortunately, but it was literally as simple as right-clicking an option somewhere in WinXP and selecting "see source" or "find source" or something), found router IP's and pulled user names and passwords for ADSL accounts from them. I remember my proud little .txt file with the 1,000 user names and passwords listed, and I remember the little Delphi app that automatically wrote the user name and password into a newly created connection, initiated the connection and deleted the old one. Use 10MB and create new connection on new username and new password, etc. etc. 10GB cap a month, free and nobody notices 10MB from their account.

Or so we thought. Police knocked on his door, recovered all this HDD's and charges were pressed (he was 17 at the time). He, the awesome friend that he is, never mentioned anyone else's names, and eventually he got a fine of something like R1,500 and the rest of the charges were dropped. Luckily. He works for FNB now, one of their more proficient code controllers, and he's only 21. Making a ****load of cash. Eh.

Just a good story, related to the case. Funny how he never got taken on about the 2TB of pirated goods on his HDD's at all. It's like it all just disappeared. Good for him that he had the HDD's were backed up on his dedicated P3 server that is installed in his flat as well.