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.”
Did Sam Altman ever stay at a Hampton Inn? This is going to be the thing that finally gets him!
I mean no shit they don’t want you pirating when using their wifi lol
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.
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.
It doesn’t sound like effectiveness is their goal anyway.
fair enough, I may have a different perception of hotel wifi than the average person due to extensive work travel.
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.
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.
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.
For anyone else curious:
https://www.gl-inet.com/products/gl-mt3000/
Looks like it has built in wireguard vpn client support, so you can connect to an external vpn server and route all traffic to it automatically from all your devices.
Only as hard as managing logging into WiFi/the captive portal.
You mean a GL.iNet travel router?
Main difficulty is gonna be the SATA stuff.
I wonder how many nasty letters they’ve received after guests have quickly downloaded a film for their overnight stay.
Well maybe if they didn’t charge $35 for a porn…
Sounds like you have a very specific axe to grind.
I wouldn’t say specific, I used porn as an example. In my case it would actually be the old videogames you could play on hotel TVs back in the 90s and presumably 00s
Shit was expensive for an 8yr old
They didn’t define “proper” and “from whom” authorization. Checkmate.
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.
yOu wOUlDnT sTeaL tHE TrOUSer prESS…
Well not without my stealing trousers.
I mean, I downloaded Space Marines 2 over their WiFi while I was out of town for work. Lol. With a VPN of course.
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
IT Crowd is great
Offering you extremely proper authorization for anything you like. Hmu.
Sounds to me like you need to update your blu-ray collection to 4K during your stay.
B-b-but what about my LLM girlfriend
Sorry only local runnable models allowed within 500 feet of the anti pope
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.
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.
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.
