Reply #152: The way I remember the story, and it has been about 30 years ago,

[VegasWolf]

a high voltage power line passed directly over his
property. He went to a local junk yard and bought a ton of cable
which he buried in his own yard. This being a capitalistic
society and all, the power company forced him to dig up his own cable in his own yard after they discovered the inductive loss.

I think OJ tried the free airwaves argument when he was fined
for stealing DirectTV services. I wouldn't be surprised if
ISPs don't start making similar arguments of theft of service
since the only real reason 99.99999 percent of the people who
"borrow" another's bandwidth is to access the internet.

Anyway, its interesting!