New Law Makes Sharing Netflix Log-In Illegal In...

XanaDUer

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Sun Jun-05-11 10:36 AM
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New Law Makes Sharing Netflix Log-In Illegal In...

Tennessee...

(AP) – Tennessee Gov. Bill Haslam has signed into law a groundbreaking bill that makes it a crime to use a friend's login, even with permission, to listen to songs or watch movies from services such as Netflix or Rhapsody. The Tennessee measure was pushed by recording industry officials to try to stop the loss of billions of dollars to illegal music sharing. Legislation was aimed at hackers and thieves who sell passwords in bulk, but its sponsors acknowledge it could be employed against people who use a friend's or relative's subscription.

While those who share their subscriptions with a spouse or other family members under the same roof almost certainly have nothing to fear, blatant offenders—say, college students who give their logins to everyone on their dormitory floor—could get in trouble.

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Has America Become a Corporate Police State?
In just the last few years, the Corporate Police State has reared its head at every level of government.

http://www.alternet.org/economy/151186/has_america_become_a_corporate_police_state/

"Corporate Police State," it's a fraught -- some might even say, overwrought -- term. But in its purest, apolitical form, it simply describes the periodic commingling of state and corporate power to protect private interests.

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Skink

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Sun Jun-05-11 10:44 AM
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1. My netflix password is password.

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obxhead

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Sun Jun-05-11 10:49 AM
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2. "almost certainly have nothing to fear"

Every time I hear or read that phrase I instantly begin to worry.

Go ahead and pass that law, we won't come after "that kind" of violation of it!

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Poll_Blind

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Sun Jun-05-11 10:50 AM
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3. That law is a crime.

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napoleon_in_rags

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Sun Jun-05-11 10:51 AM
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4. So my partner, who I live with...

...must by law use a different Netflix account as me on the same TV??? We're under the same roof but not technically married or family.

Man, this is stuff they should do in the EULA. limit the IPs they can access it from in a day, that sort of thing. This is not a legislative issue.

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Celebration

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Sun Jun-05-11 11:11 AM
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5. good grief

This should be a civil, not a criminal violation. Ridiculous. Probably the prison industry is behind it.

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Warren Stupidity

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Sun Jun-05-11 11:53 AM
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6. My whole family is now a Crime Family.

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William769

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Sun Jun-05-11 12:20 PM
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7. So this is what they call "less Government"?

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XanaDUer

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Sun Jun-05-11 01:39 PM
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8. Less government, for corporations

not humans.

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Arkana

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Sun Jun-05-11 01:43 PM
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9. I share mine with my sister.

Thank God I live in the liberal Valhalla that is Massachusetts and not in Tennessee.

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