Impressive WiFi coverage

[darmstadt]

What I have over here with T-Online is a flatrate package which means that all T-Online wifi spots are included in my package. That means that anywhere that has one of these hotspots (over 60,000 of them in Germany) I can login and not get charged extra. The chain of hotels that I use has them which is nice so I don't need to pay for internet in hotels plus they are also worldwide and although I haven't signed up, yet, for that I still don't pay the amount a non-T-Online customer does. Quite helpful (don't BT have anything like that?)

[TheFaQQer]

As for legal issues about someone doing something dodgy on your FON - surely its the perfect get-out clause! your WIFI is open to the public so no court in the land could ever say without reasonable doubt that it was you doing the dodgy stuff, and therefore no conviction could ever stick.. worth running a FON spot just for that reason

You would think so, but that's not what the German Supreme Court ruled in 2010 - linky

Germany's top criminal court ruled Wednesday that Internet users need to secure their private wireless connections by password to prevent unauthorized people from using their Web access to illegally download data.

Internet users can be fined up to euro100 ($126) if a third party takes advantage of their unprotected WLAN connection to illegally download music or other files, the Karlsruhe-based court said in its verdict.

[Joeman]

You would think so, but that's not what the German Supreme Court ruled in 2010 - linky

Thats another good reason for UK to stay out of Europe!!
However, for EUR100 you could download thousands in 'free' music and blame it on someone else - cheaper than iTunes