Fibre piracy

Wonder where else this is happening cheese what next stealing fibre for roofing or something...
 
Listen guys,piracy is wrong,stop stealing our holes in the ground :>
 
That's f__cking brilliant/funny!!! Only in this country!! and I mean its not like its some fly by night operation. I mean yeah, digging trenches in the most expensive part, but fibre optic cable, especially depending on the length, is not cheap either!!
 
Piracy? WTF - you can't steal fresh air? I guess piracy is the word of the moment, much like "terrist".

Maybe if these contractors would share holes, we could get cheaper fibre, sooner. (wait - I just read that back and it sounded weird)
 
How the hell is this considered piracy? Piracy by definition means illegal copying something of an original. Piracy is theft (so they say). One might argue the definition of theft means the original goes away where piracy just duplicates it, the original is still there
 
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kuga said:
How the hell is this considered piracy? Piracy by definition means illegal copying something of an original. Piracy is theft (so they say). One might argue the definition of theft means the original goes away where piracy just duplicates it, the original is still there
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Yes exactly. Piracy is considered taking posession of someone elses property. The trenches belong to the municipality and they issue who has the right to lay cables and who doesn't. You can't stop others from laying cables next to yours if they have the lisences to do so.
 
and I've seen it in action :) although it was the house owner who had his landscaped verge "dug" up by Neo-Smell contractors (costing him a small fortune in re-landscaping. Today I saw him getting the "trench" dug up, I stopped and asked him if there was a problem, he smiled and said no, I'm using the trench to run a new cable for my new electric gates :)
 
kuga said:
How the hell is this considered piracy? Piracy by definition means illegal copying something of an original. Piracy is theft (so they say). One might argue the definition of theft means the original goes away where piracy just duplicates it, the original is still there
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This isnt really piracy just some journo trying to create a new buzzword, albeit a clever one.
 
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