According to the director of hotspot provider The Cloud, an owner of a pub in the U.K. has been fined about $13,ooo, because somenone has downloaded copyrighted sources illegally at his pub's open Wi-Fi hotspot.
This kind of case is unique in the U.K. However, other detailed information is not publicized, because the client of The Cloud, which is the pub owner, has not given his permission.
It is convenient that we can use Wi-Fi everywhere, but from this case still open Wi-Fi networks and the liability of those running sysytem is not clear. I think there should be rules and regulations that control Wi-Fi use in businesses because more and more open Wi-Fi spaces are offered to us.
How do you think about this?
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Just as ISP's are not liable, how should an internet cafe owner be? To any reason, it should be clear that an the owner of the pub is not looking over everyone's shoulder while serving. Maybe he could've blocked some of the functions on the computer, but still. How would this affect others in the future? Do we need to block everything in order to prevent people from downloading things in order to prevent for getting fined??
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