Sharing Netflix, Rhapsody Passwords Soon Illegal

[hoofhearted]

The content provider should just do a 3 strikes and your out for concurrent IP usages. Problem solved.

This court crap is just going to lead to people like little old ladies getting done by the RIAA just like that latest "Frog and Monkey" going around on utube. (We are the frogs)

 

[dheadley]

Actually you can stream to five devices at a time with one login with netflix. At our house we have 3 Roku boxes, 2 BD players, 1 Xbox 360, an Apple TV and an iPad that all stream netflix. Not to mention the 2 desktops and 2 laptops. Between the kids and my wife and I we often have 3 or more going at the same time. Netflix offers this as a feature, as something you pay for, no one is taking advantage of them be streaming more than one show at a time. So how does the state make something illegal that the company offers itself and you are paying for the right to use in this manner. (I'm speaking about sharing a login throughout one house.)

 

[xenorm]

Next up, C0mcast lobbies to make sharing cable and internet services within one household illegal. "It's only fair that each individual pays for their own service," states C0mcast spokesperson, "How else will we continue to profit without upgrading our service?"

 

[eddieroolz]

At the request of the music industry,

I saw this line and that was enough.

 

[davekozy]

Playing a radio too loud is already illegal. There are laws for noise violations. If your neighbor calls the police like mine did you can get a ticket.

 

[Guest]

Next you're going to be required to sell tickets to anybody that watches a movie with you... I bet some concerned lobbyists made some nice "campaign contributions" to those lawmakers, and there's about a 90% chance the ones leading the push for this bill are redneck republicans who are "agin' big gummit intra-fearing wif teh lives of private cit'zens"...

 

[dread_cthulhu]

I'm sick of seeing laws like this... Governments need to be small, and businesses need to quit robbing their customers.

 

[trippopotomus]

It's all very nice that so many think Netflix and Rhapsody should solve this problem themselves and are confused as to why the government would be involved. The government is involved because they want to incarcerate and rob you. The legislation in question has already passed here in Tennessee, home of the Corrections Corporation of America, a for-profit company that builds and maintains prisons across the country. And the more people run through the judicial system, the more they and the local government make. The maximum punishment will be 1 year in prison (so the CCA gets their money) and a $2500 fine, which is in addition to court cost (which can run anywhere from $80 to $1500, so the local government gets a pretty sizable chunk as well). Why are they doing this? Because you are the enemy. Wake up and boycott.

 

[trippopotomus]

It's all very nice that so many think Netflix and Rhapsody should solve this problem themselves and are confused as to why the government would be involved. The government is involved because they want to incarcerate and rob you. The legislation in question has already passed here in Tennessee, home of the Corrections Corporation of America, a for-profit company that builds and maintains prisons across the country. And the more people run through the judicial system, the more they and the local government make. The maximum punishment will be 1 year in prison (so the CCA gets their money) and a $2500 fine, which is in addition to court cost (which can run anywhere from $80 to $1500, so the local government gets a pretty sizable chunk as well). Why are they doing this? Because you are the enemy. Wake up and boycott.

 

[mediv42]

"Sharing the information with family under the same roof (wife, children etc) is presumably safe"

Only because of lack of evidence. According to the law, it sounds like it's technically going to illegal.

 

[Tesla1483]

"Pretty soon theres gonna be laws as to when you can and cant go to the bathroom."

"Playing a Radio too loud will soon become illegal."

If you actually think about it reasonably, slippery slope arguments like these really have no validity here. Just because the government wants to pass a law protecting businesses from a certain kind of fraud does not mean that the next step is an Orwellian dystopia where everything you do is subject to excessive regulation and monitoring.

It's not like there is no reasoning behind this law: If many people were to just use the same login/password without paying the subscription fees (except for the one lone person who originally started it), and there were no consequence, Netflix could lose a lot of money. I personally don't think a law is necessary, as Netflix should be able to control this by watching out for concurrent streams by a bunch of different IP addresses using the same login and then taking there own steps such as canceling accounts.

 

[Guest]

Netflix already handles this. Only two streams are allowed at a time on our account.

You're an idiot if you give out the account info to anyone outside of your immediate family. You'll soon find out others are watching and you can't because the two streams are in use. What do you do then? Call all your friends and ask them to get off? What happens when a friend of a friend of a friend decides to change the password on the account?

There really isn't a need for these kinds of laws. Netflix can impose these limits by having it in the mandatory subscriber agreement.

 

[fir_ser]

[citation][nom]anonymous dont work[/nom]Netflix already handles this. Only two streams are allowed at a time on our account.You're an idiot if you give out the account info to anyone outside of your immediate family. You'll soon find out others are watching and you can't because the two streams are in use. What do you do then? Call all your friends and ask them to get off? What happens when a friend of a friend of a friend decides to change the password on the account?There really isn't a need for these kinds of laws. Netflix can impose these limits by having it in the mandatory subscriber agreement.[/citation]
Good point.

 

[HappyBB]

IMO, this is just another stupid legislation proposed by greedy people!