Mastering the Internet

[Roland Perry]

In article <4A0D4E8D.60203@ernest.net>, Nicholas Bohm <nbohm@ernest.net> 
writes

>>> Sending any other content - even if goes to a box which is switched
>>> off, as long as the switch is in someone else's control - is illegal
>>> interception by the ISP, again under 2(2)(a), as it makes content
>>> available to the someone else who controls the switch.
>>
>> [Apologies to Ian] Compare it to a hotel minibar when the room occupant
>> is under age. Are the hotel illegally supplying alcohol or not?
>
>They're surely making it available to him if they give him the key to
>the minibar.

I don't think they are supplying it to him until he opens the door and 
takes it out. (Very few are locked these days). I don't believe the 
hotel or the parent is committing an offence by allowing a minor in the 
same room.

I won't split hairs here about whether or not he then drinks it - 
although I notice that supermarkets allow minors to wander around with 
prohibited items, as long as they don't try to purchase them. In the 
hotel I stayed at a week ago, they had an "automatic" minibar where the 
purchase was made when you removed the item.
-- 
Roland Perry