Password sharing now a federal offense

Fortune: pastebin.com/Wuf1vfXE

Basically if you share your password for paid services or use someone else's, you're a federal criminal.

hahaha murricans got cucked

LAND OF THE FREE!
>Americans will defend this

what is a netflix?

One step closer to a cyberpunk dystopia.

Being a slave to the Jew in the current year

>> Escape while you can

Just because it's illegal, doesn't mean they'll actually enforce it.

cyberpunk is already here

just without the cool aesthetics

All that's missing are personal armies, corporations that can do whatever they want and Kill anyone they want, and making hacking the death penalty.

They won't go doorbusting for it but it's just one more thing they can tack on your record/jailtime if you get arrested period.

> Share my Netflix password with my wifes boyfriend

> 20 SWAT vans, 3 helicopters and 4 K-9 units show at my door

> Get shot when opening the door because the cops felt unsafe

nice country lads desu

I'm an American citizen, and I do not defend this.

Then explain why they added multiple screen accounts if they didn't want you to share?

>tfw pirates win again

gee i dunno maybe if you have more than 1 tv in your house lol

So everyone INSIDE the same house can watch at the same time
I'm surprised they haven't added an IP lock to that shit yet.

pirating is still illegal

>OP links to a pastebin
>decide to google the news title and see if it actually exists
>it's actually about a guy who left the company but still had access to their database and so kept using it illegally

The newstitle is astoundingly misleading and you guys better not be this retarded.

>making hacking the death penalty.

Rulings like this make that sort of thing more and more possible. As corporations gain more leverage over the state they will start using it to enrich themselves to an even greater extent than they doing now.

Skynet when?

>TFW the US Government tries to stop a crime they can't prevent.

Soon.

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Well cyberpunk is already here, we just need to work on making the country shittier and more dystopia like.

Holy slippery slope, Batman!

>I don't know how a common law system works: the post

>tip the shooter

witnessed

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>it's an Americans get cucked episode
This theme is very recurrent on the series

>On July 5th , the U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals issued an opinion which found, in part, that sharing passwords is a crime prosecutable under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA).
>issued an opinion
No legal decision made, no precedent set
It's fucking nothing. Everyone who fell for OP's bait can kill themselves.

Actually read about it you stupid, idiotic retards.

The decision was that it is illegal to share the password of someone WITHOUT THE CONSENT OF THE SYSTEM OWNER.

Meaning, I can't share my mom's Netflix password with my friend without her consent.

Except the person's password they were sharing was in on it. You would need Netflix's consent.

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Feels good to live in a free country.

>wifes boyfriend

An IP lock wouldn't work, since you can watch Netflix on the go.

india sure is a great country.

>Except the person's password they were sharing was in on it

Except no they weren't. SYSTEM OWNERS consent, not user.

He used an ex-coworkers password to access business network, he didn't have permission from the owner, ie his ex-boss.

Always was a felony in my state. Netflix have said they don't care.

>All that's missing are personal armies

Blackwater

>corporations that can do whatever they want

Telecoms and Oil companies, desu

It's not so much about them caring as the studios caring. They've proven they're the studios little bitch recently with the crackdown on VPNs.
If the studios start complaining about account sharing netflix will bend over backwards to please them

>he didn't have permission from the owner, ie his ex-boss.
ie Netflix. You don't own your Netflix account nor the Netflix server that you're accessing.

>american defending this

>My password was stolen, not my fault
Was that so hard?

>The end of that pastebin
Did he actually fucking use "bae" in a news article?

lying convincingly is *really* hard for autistic people, so a lot of people on Sup Forums rightly figure they can't do it.

then again, sharing your password is a social thing. something tells me very few people on Sup Forums engage in that practice.

We're not far from it, honestly