Hey guys,
As the economy worsens and my pockets continue to drain, I find myself in a dilemma of the moral kind.
We all love the internet, the wonderful things you can learn and find, like dirty pictures of just about anybody, and that crazy home video of some douchebag doing just about anything that’s just a few clicks away; but when you’re strapped for cash, that 50 bucks a month seems like an awful lot just to check my emails and post both genius and madness on this awesome forum.
I don’t know if everyone here is familiar with “War Driving”, but it’s a term used to describe those people who sit in their cars outside of hotels and various other hotspots to steal wireless internet right out of the thin blue sky.
Well, a good friend of mine hooked me up with a wireless receiver and I found that if I hooked it up to my home computer, there were several wireless networks floating around my house and a select few were unprotected networks (fools!
) that I can connect to and therefore use the internet for free.
It’s been working pretty well for a couple weeks now. I’ve even gone ahead and cancelled my subscription from optimum and am now War LIVING.
Therein lies the moral debate: Is this wrong? Is this an offense, karmicly speaking, for which I will have to pay? If it is floating invisibly through the air, should I not just reach out and GRAB it!? Am I really beating the system, and how long will I be riding this silver-lined cloud?
I mean, realistically, I am saving myself $50 a month, which is a big deal when you are as poor as me, so I’m probably NOT gonna stop hijacking free internet from my neighbors, but I’d love to hear your thoughts just the same.
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