[anigbrowl]

I wouldn't go as far as 'breaking the law', and I agree with the author that the contractual terms ($31 for wifi) are a shitty offer to a captive audience. But I'm also tired of pseudolegalism being employed as figleaf for bragging about the ability to bypass access controls and presumably making everything run a bit slower for all the other passengers (the author mentions that they gave up using it after a while because the bandwidth was so limited).

Yes, long flights are miserable and air travel is a bit of a ripoff. I choose to cope by treating it as an internet break and enjoying a dense book.

[Zak]

Laws penalizing theft of services usually work even if they haven't accounted for the exact manner in which someone might steal the service in question.

The author knew there was a fee for the service; the author devised a way to obtain the service without paying the fee; the author knew this action was not authorized by the service provider.