A splash screen for the internet portal at a Hampton Inn. The text says:

“We are pleased to provide you with internet service during your stay. By clicking below, you agree not to download, share or otherwise use others’ copyrighted content, such as movies, music, computer games or television shows without proper authorization.”

  • fuwa@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    16·
    18 hours ago

    What’s the point? Is that a legally binding contract? What penalties are there if you breach it?

    I’d say it’s just social engineering because they have a low bandwidth connection (for the number of users).

    Disclaimer: I do find it’s extremely rude to overuse a shared internet connection, regardless of what use you make of it.

  • 𝕸𝖔𝖘𝖘@infosec.pubEnglish
    5·
    14 hours ago

    You wouldn’t shoot a Policeman and then steal his helmet. You wouldn’t go to the toilet in his helmet, and then send it to the Policeman’s grieving widow, and then steal it again. Downloading films is stealing; if you do it you WILL face the consequences!

    Edit: link to video lol

  • JakenVeina@midwest.socialEnglish
    5·
    17 hours ago

    Yeah, this seems like a non-issue, to me. When the ISP sees pirated traffic, they have to issue a notice to the customer, and that customer is Hampton Inn. The ISP doesn’t know or care that the end user isn’t Hampton employees. They’re just covering their ass, legally.

    Don’t pirate without a proper VPN.

  • teuto@lemmy.teuto.icuEnglish
    1·
    12 hours ago

    It’s a standard page on Hilton hotels, I think they started rolling it out about a year or two ago and most Hiltons have it now. 50/50 their internet is better than dialup anyway.

  • archonet@lemy.lolEnglish
    3·
    18 hours ago

    Sounds to me like you need to update your blu-ray collection to 4K during your stay.

  • brax@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    82·
    22 hours ago

    By tht logic you’re not allowed to even so much as visit a website as that would require you to download logos another media into your cache. Seems pretty useless to me.

  • DebatableRaccoon@lemmy.caEnglish
    21·
    1 day ago

    I wonder how many nasty letters they’ve received after guests have quickly downloaded a film for their overnight stay.

  • TheTurner@lemmy.zipEnglish
    11·
    1 day ago

    I mean, I downloaded Space Marines 2 over their WiFi while I was out of town for work. Lol. With a VPN of course.

  • Engywook@lemmy.zipEnglish
    13·
    1 day ago

    They didn’t define “proper” and “from whom” authorization. Checkmate.

  • y0kai@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    273·
    1 day ago

    I wonder how hard it would be to set up a hidden raspberry pi proxy server on the hampton inn’s wifi and use it as a torrent vpn.

    • possumparty@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      22·
      1 day ago

      Well, considering that even their premium wifi will usually only get about 29 Mbps down at the high end, it won’t be super effective.

      • y0kai@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        3·
        18 hours ago

        This is basically what I get at home, on average, despite paying for 100Mb/s, because capitalism says you can use the words “up to” when you sell something that will likely never reach that number.

        • possumparty@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
          1·
          8 hours ago

          classic. isp’s always over promise and under deliver. in this case it’s not that there’s not more headroom available, it’s just that they throttle non priority devices leaving us high and dry when you’re trying to play a game and use voice

      • Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafeEnglish
        2·
        1 day ago

        Use a router setup to combine network connections for throughput, setup in a box with solar in motel central, and tada, you’re risking someone else’s connection.

        • possumparty@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
          2·
          22 hours ago

          I already use a glinet beryl ax for all my hotel stays- they’re typically 8 weeks at a time so it’s important for me to be able to isolate myself from their standard network.

            • possumparty@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
              1·
              8 hours ago

              can confirm that it works well, however ease of use typically keeps me off of the vpn for my quest 3. it does occasionally glitch out a bit since newer hotel networks are usually dualband so you’ll have to manually set the beryl to only accept 5ghz otherwise it’ll frequently deauth. I’ve noticed that sometimes it’ll also deauth if there’s another beryl on the same network. It’s kind of like playing whack a mole with deauthing.