Sharing HBO Go Accounts Could Result In Prison

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."

Re:netflix sharing llc

[vux984]

if sued the limited libabillity company goes under and nothing happens to you. use the corporate contorted legal system to your own advantage

Why would they sue the company? The company has a paid account. They'd sue you, personally, the individual using their service who does not have an account.

But even so, it raises some interesting points:

Can a corporation have a netflix account?
If not, why not? Is that discriminatory? After all, "Corporations are people too my frienda".

If they can have an account who is allowed to stream content on their behalf, employees? shareholders? officers?

Maybe I should incoporate for steam. Now the account holder (the corporation) never dies, and presumably my wife can play my games without violating their EULA; solves at least one of the larger gripes I have with Steam...

Re:Theft of Service!

[fredprado]

Nope he implied that if I am innocent I better take a guilty plea anyway or I will go to jail. That is how US criminal system works, and that is why more than 90% of the people charged with anything end pledging guilty, a great part of them innocent people. Basically people are blackmailed to give up on their right to defend themselves by the threat of disproportional sentences if they fail.