Free Long Distance, Courtesy of Sprint PCS

The cool thing is that on my own Sprint PCS phone, I’ve got a service called PCS to PCS Dialing which means that I can call any other Sprint PCS phone any time of day or night and I don’t get charged for airtime. So this means I can call the voice bridge anytime I want and it’s free. The downside? Whoever pays for that Sprint PCS phone in that store gets charged 10 cents a minute whenever I’m on the voice bridge. So in a few months they’re probably going to come and kill me. I don’t know if my number will show up on their phone bill or not, but I’m betting it will. Luckily I think everyone on the bridge is lame so I don’t bother calling it that often.

So is this illegal to do? I personally don’t think it is. Evilcal thinks I’m wrong. I’ve been known to be wrong before and ended up in jail because of it so there’s a small possibility that Evilcal could be right. It seems like it wouldn’t be illegal though, because the Sprint PCS store put service on those phones for customers to come in and try out. There are no rules about what a customer can or cannot do with the phones. Not that I noticed anyway. They want the customers to use the phones. They wouldn’t have them sitting out on display with working service on them if they didn’t. So I’m not doing anything illegal really, am I? It’d be the same as if I went to their store from open to close and sat on the phone the entire time talking to my family 2,000 miles away. That’s definitely not illegal so why should call forwarding the line be any different? The way I see it, I’m not breaking the law, I’m just being an asshole.

But Evilcal sees it a little differently. To him it’s like when a retarded system administrator sets up a system with all kinds of important information on it but forgets to put a password on it. If you log into it and copy all the files, it’s illegal. It’s not legal just because the sysadmin is an idiot. Or if the owner of an ATM machine forgets to lock up the cash door on the machine. Just because it’s unlocked doesn’t mean you can open it up and take all the money home. Not legally anyway. So what do YOU think?