Both Netflix and HBO Go passwords fall into this category.
Also, if you are not careful, getting caught sharing these passwords could result in jail time.
Judge Stephen Reinhardt, who presided over this latest ruling noted the following.
[This ruling] threatens to criminalize all sorts of innocuous conduct engaged in daily by ordinary citizens.
Judge Margaret McKeown, who was in the majority vote, had this to say about the unprecedented ruling.
Nosal and various amici spin hypotheticals about the dire consequences of criminalizing password sharing.
But these warnings miss the mark in this case.
This appeal is not about password sharing.
McKeown fully believes that phrasing is concrete and without wiggle room, according to Motherboard.
McKeown goes onto state the following.
The big question this raises is, Who gives the authorization?
However, Judge Stephen Reinhardt disagreed, who gives the impression of an authority on hacking.
In a dissenting opinion, he writes:
This case is about password sharing.
People frequently share their passwords, notwithstanding the fact that websites and employers have policies prohibiting it.
There simply is no limiting principle in the majoritys world of lawful and unlawful password sharing.
At this point, neither company has made a move to do so.
Source:Motherboard
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