said by JossMan3:Its only cable theft if you are getting cable straight from the cable tap. They are simply sharing cable lines. Just like we share bandwidth on a cable line.
Heh, I love when people pull these "rules of thumb" out their proverbial ass's to wrongly correct the right.
It looks to me like Mr. JossMan is bending the blatently obvious answer to what eases his own conscious. =)
Anyhow, everyone caught this one and this is a dead horse, but I will give it one last kick...
You justify your premise that it isn't cable theft with an analogy.
"Just like we share bandwidth on a cable line."
You prooved yourself wrong with that statement alone. We share our bandwidth in the same household, apartment, room, etc. We do not share the same bandwidth with our neighbor 500 yards away through a window.
I know you can do this, and this again would be "theft" again heh.
However, on the bandwidth side of things, I could see sharing bandwidth being a little more justified, because thereby sharing your appropriated share of the overall bandwidth you yourself are having a direct portion of your service taken away from you. If you were to share your cable bandwidth with 5 neighbors, and you all were on at the same time,.. Things are gonna slow waaay down,.. Especially if Danny is downloading the latest version of Debbie does Dallas on his favorite Bitorrent site. =)
Anyhow, of course it's still stealing... it's all a matter of what if any virtue's the individual in question possess'.