It's actually not ridiculous nor irrelevant. Especially as it is so relatively easy for his neighbour to keep his "digital water" on his side of the fence.

Meaning: It's rather easy to restrict access to a WiFi cloud, as simple as setting MAC addresses. I'm not arguing that those measures are secure (they're far from it), but at least implementing one or more would show intent to protect one's own WiFi cloud.

The legislation that now applies is effectively one to protect the terminally stupid and/or unwilling to learn. This is not a good thing, if only because it will have a negative effect on the average intelligence of our species.

A far better policy would be to severely punish those that infringe upon secured wireless networks -- however flawed that security might be -- and consider all unsecured networks open for public access.

But noooo! that would mean people would have to start using their brains. Can't have that, can we? Next thing we know, they start voting for Ron Paul...