old_expat - 2:12 pm on Mar 26, 2006 (gmt 0)

"The logic is simple, someone is paying, and it isn't you!"

First, very few things in life are simple. Second, even if someone is paying and it isn't you .. a crime has not necessarily been committed. Incidental use of the service may not necessarily make anyone pay more, either.

"You knew that someone was paying .."

Maybe, maybe not.

" .. by stealing the resource for free you are defrauding at least one person, possibly hundreds."

Not unless there is financial loss .. and isn't fraud based on intent?