Sharing HBO Go Accounts Could Result In Prison 221
coolnumbr12 writes "In a recent New York Times article called 'No TV? No Subscription? No Problem?' Jenna Wortham noted how she used, 'the information of a guy in New Jersey that I had once met in a Mexican restaurant.' Dave Their of Forbes admitted that he used his sister's boyfriend's father's account in exchange for his Netflix information. But this is stealing under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, which makes it a misdemeanor with a maximum one-year prison sentence to 'obtain without authorization information from a protected computer.' It is also a violation of the Digital Millennium Copy Act because it is knowingly circumventing a protection measure set up to prevent someone from watching content like 'Game of Thrones' without paying. Forbes points out that a crafty prosecutor could also claim that using an HBO Go password without paying is a form of identity theft."
Theft of Service! (Score:5, Funny)
Sarcasm (Score:5, Funny)
Fortunately our US Attorneys are well-known for their common sense and restraint, and when they *do* go overboard, they get fired and disbarred like Carmen Ortiz.
Re:Theft of Service! (Score:5, Funny)
Don't worry. Under PRISM the NSA can watch movies all day long using your credentials.
This is actually how this whole mess will get resolved. The MPAA sues the NSA for trillions and bankrupts the whole spying industry after which the FBI rounds up all MPAA execs for terrorist activities and sends them to a camp in sunny Cuba.
Re:Theft of Service! (Score:5, Funny)
The officer threatened to give me a fine for wasting his time
That's because it was obvious to him that you'd been already booked.
Re:Theft of Service! (Score:5, Funny)
Perhaps the wives were turning up on-screen...