UK Man Convicted For Wi-Fi Piggybacking 659
CatrionaMcM tips us to a BBC story reporting that Gregory Straszkiewicz, a UK resident, was fined £500 and sentenced to a conditional discharge for 12 months after being caught using a laptop from a car parked outside somebody else's house. '[H]e was prosecuted under the Communications Act and found guilty of dishonestly obtaining an electronic communications service.' A separate BBC story notes that two other people in England were arrested and cautioned for sharing Wi-Fi uninvited.
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It ended up rather sanely, no charges IIRC, and the library just turned off their equipment at night. For that matter, though, who really cares if they didn't.