Comments on: Washington ferry goes Wi-Fi http://www.p2pnet.net/story/2248 p2pnet.net - reader powered Wed, 01 Feb 2012 15:11:09 -0300 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Reader's Write http://www.p2pnet.net/story/2248/comment-page-1#comment-4712 Reader's Write Wed, 25 Aug 2004 21:18:23 +0000 #comment-4712 " once the trials end next March ... Because of the infrastructure costs involved, he said he expects any permanent Wi-Fi system to be fee-based." So enjoy it while it lasts. This appears to be the test run for a fee-based service. That might mean that although free, the service requires opening an account to login and access the network. (perhaps ID and CC req'd) Due to the USA's current police-state mentality, don't count on being able to do much anonymously, especially anything travel-related. As many P2P users slapped by RIAA lawsuits are discovering, the internet is generally not anonymous. WI-FI however offers the possibility of being untraceable - but the question is whether Big Entertainment - or Big Government - will allow this to go unchallenged. ” once the trials end next March … Because of the infrastructure costs involved, he said he expects any permanent Wi-Fi system to be fee-based.”
So enjoy it while it lasts. This appears to be the test run for a fee-based service. That might mean that although free, the service requires opening an account to login and access the network. (perhaps ID and CC req’d) Due to the USA’s current police-state mentality, don’t count on being able to do much anonymously, especially anything travel-related.

As many P2P users slapped by RIAA lawsuits are discovering, the internet is generally not anonymous. WI-FI however offers the possibility of being untraceable – but the question is whether Big Entertainment – or Big Government – will allow this to go unchallenged.

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