Sharing Netflix and HBO passwords is now a federal crime

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62. No, you're assuming facts into the ruling that skew your perception of it.

It's not a stupid ruling at all. The counterargument is so inane as to be laughable: "I own my password to their stuff so I can do with it whatever I want, outside of the terms I was given access under." You really want to try to defend that position? Fine by me, but as a creator of intellectual property, it's not a hill I want to die on.

If you don't like who the Netflix EULA allows you to share your password with...cancel your subscription.

The federal law you're hung up on concerns only password sharing outside of the agreed EULA...something that was already assumed to be a crime, but which Netflix was not pursuing. Now it's factually a crime based on this ruling...and they're still not pursuing.

This has fuck-all to do with anything you think it does. It doesn't concern you sharing the password with your wife, permitted under the EULA, which was always legal and remains so as you are permitted by the EULA to share your password with your wife as members of the same household. What the ruling concerns is you sharing your password in violation of the EULA with your friend that lives in an entirely different household 4 states away so he doesn't have to pay for his own account...that's now factually illegal, though Netflix won't be pursuing it, and you can't be sued or charged for piracy without an aggrieved party. So even if the FBI wanted to arrest you for giving your password to someone you're not permitted to under the EULA, they can't unless Netflix presses charges.

Nobody is getting prosecuted for illegally sharing their Netflix password so long as Netflix doesn't care enough to enforce their EULA.

Nobody is getting arrested for sharing their password with members of their household, even if Netflix does decide to care enough to start legally-pursuing violations of their EULA.