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Federal court rules that sharing your Netflix password is a federal crime
- jacquesm 10y agoGood luck with that. People have weak passwords on lots of systems, it is quite often not possible to separate using a weak password and having an account compromised from having a password shared. So essentially, now having a weak password is a federal crime. And that's besides password re-use which frequently leads to accounts on all kinds of systems being compromised. I understand what the judge is trying to achieve (to make sure that one 'buyer' of a netflix subscription equates to one consumer) but the side-effects of this ruling are considerable and very wrong.
- brudgers 10y agoLess linkbait at Motherboard: https://motherboard.vice.com/read/password-sharing-is-a-federal-crime https://motherboard.vice.com/read/password-sharing-is-a-fede... A submission: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12048621 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12048621