[servo1969]

Ninth Circus: We'll just make a sweeping ruling that covers everything. What's the worst that could happen, right?

[proust]

Not enough rules on the books...

[Buckeye McFrog]

Legislature? We don’t need no steenking legislature!

[mad_as_he$$]

I have/had no “intent” to share....

[The_Media_never_lie]

Yeah, so they will make a felon of some little guy who shares a password, but won’t prosecute Hillary for being reckless with national security?

[bankwalker]

to the entity providing the service it is theft ...

[I want the USA back]

The headline is a complete and total fraud. This is not about password sharing.
This is about unauthorized use of a password. This cannot be extended to things such as a spouse sharing a password with a spouse.

[SoFloFreeper]

that isn’t the purview of the courts. it would be a purview for Congress.

[Secret Agent Man]

Your Honor, I am Hillary Clinton.

Case dismissed!

[9YearLurker]

Idiotic Ninth.

[kiryandil]

A new federal court ruling could make sharing your passwords for subscription services -- covering everything from Netflix to HBO GO -- a federal crime punishable by prison time, according to a judge who opposed the decision.

Well, except for Hillary Clinton and her minions.

No reasonable prosecutor would prefer charges against Her Thighness.

[JohnBrowdie]

good luck enforcing that one.

[cyclotic]

Yeehaa, more felonies for me.

Our family shares my Netflix account even though we live in several states.

Oh no, we also share a phone account. Is that illegal too 9th Circus?

[sportutegrl]

I have Netflix streaming and am paying for 4 devices playing at one time. It is not the government's business if I give my mother my password. Two devices at once was not enough because the kids were using their phones to watch cartoons when I wanted to watch Agents of Shield. So I upgraded to the "4 devices streaming at once" version, but I never have more than three, so I gave my Mom my password, and she watches westerns.

It seems to me that if Netflix says I can watch 4 devices at once, then it shouldn't matter if I want to cool off the back bedroom with Oscillating Fan for Your Home or let my mother watch Penny Dreadful.

[Lazamataz]

A new federal court ruling could make sharing your passwords for subscription services -- covering everything from Netflix to HBO GO -- a federal crime punishable by prison time, according to a judge who opposed the decision.

Not a problem. I'll just store the passwords on an illegal email server. Presto, I'm Miz Clinton.

[The Sons of Liberty]

Ruling could make sharing passwords for subscription services a federal crime

So if a tech unsavvy moron like Madam Benghazi needs tech support to log on and gives her password to the tech rep to get her on, it's a Federal Crime - well for everyone else, certainly NOT her!

[yuleeyahoo]

#NoCriminalIntent

Hey, it works for Hillary.

[GOPJ]

But it’s OK for Hillary to share classified information?

[BuffaloJack]

Just last month I bumped my Netflix account up to allow 4 simultaneous streams instead of 2. It was an extra $4 per month.
I can now allow my daughter in college to use one of the streams, without privilege collisions.

[Jack Hammer]

The Ninth Circus.

Again.

Wonder how many clowns they can get to emerge from a mini-Cooper...?