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It's a bit of a special case by normal american thinking: where's the victim? The girl who just shut off her machine to board the plane isn't losing anything. The wireless provider has already been paid for the full access interval.. no victim, not really a moral crime.
Presumably, if Tony was getting the red Xs on his browser window, someone else was also getting them. Packets which were supposed to go to the person he was spoofing were going to him, and vice versa. After he found an "unused" MAC address he was fine, but since there's no reliable way to know what MACs are truly in use (or, in Tony's analogy, which parking spaces were empty and were going to be empty for the rest of the time period) it seems to me doing this is a bit of a "moral crime" because it degrades service someone else paid for so you can get service for free.
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