  Neil Stop All The Downloadin
join:2003-08-20 New York, NY
| reply to LinuxJunkie Re: Deserved arrest
said by LinuxJunkie :Furthermore, that law says "any computer connected to the Internet" -- what about computers that are simply on a closed LAN that happens to have a wireless connection? No Internet connection there so that law wouldn't even apply in that case. According to the Wikipedia definition (»en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internets),
Internets may refer to: .. # Wide area networks using a private IP address space, called "private internets" in RFC 1918 Granted, a private network wouldn't be "THE" Internet, but apparently it is still AN internet. -- idunno much about computers other than the one we got at my house my mom put a couple games on there and i play em
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