WiFi piggybacking illegal?!?

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The guy obviously has got a crap lawyer as he could just site all the times hackers have been let off the hook because they were not challenged or warned off upon entry to the system (in relation to the trespass reason above)
If you access a website (or publicaly available network) without needing a password or other security, with no messages warning of restricted access, its owner cannot sue you for using his private web bandwidth by visiting the site can he? It seems the latest government has passed yet another badly thought out law (add that to the 1000s of badly thought out new ones) without thinking of the consequences.