[MLB-WIRELESS] Fw: NYT reports on Time Warner flap over 802.11 free access

[Barry Park]

More on the 802.11b nastygrams. NY Times is subscription only, so here's the
random login generator:
http://www.majcher.com/nytview.html
- Barry

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From: Declan McCullagh <declan at well.com>
To: politech at politechbot.com <politech at politechbot.com>
Date: Tuesday, July 02, 2002 2:03 AM
Subject: FC: NYT reports on Time Warner flap over 802.11 free access


>Politech messages from last week on this:
>http://www.politechbot.com/p-03700.html
>http://www.politechbot.com/p-03689.html
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>http://www.nytimes.com/2002/07/01/technology/01WIFI.html?pagewanted=print
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>July 1, 2002
>A Dispute Over Wireless Networks
>
>By PETER MEYERS
>The New York Times
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>Time Warner Cable sent some of its New York City cable-modem subscribers
>letters last week warning that operating wireless networks and inviting
>others to freely share them violated their subscription agreements.
>
>The company's action highlights a potential conflict between a small number
>of advocates of free, wireless networking and the broadband providers who
>supply their Internet connections.
>
>Fewer than a dozen letters were sent, according to the company, a unit of
>AOL Time Warner. The letters cited a clause in the subscription agreement
>prohibiting redistribution of the company's Internet connection service.
>
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