Tennessee Makes it Illegal To Share Your Netflix Password
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Re: Tennessee Makes it Illegal To Share Your Netflix Password
#2Why not just get it over with and send everyone to RIAA-run prison camps?
Re: Tennessee Makes it Illegal To Share Your Netflix Password
#3How on earth would people legally sell netflix passwords in bulk anyway? This was something that needed to be addressed on the state level because no other laws were being broken in the process? But spam is okay?
The lobbyist force these industries have must be insanely powerful and expensive. Well, one more law that the people arresting and judging you are probably breaking themselves or their kids are.
I'm pretty sure the future of law enforcement is to make sure everyone is breaking some law at some point and they can basically arrest and prosecute you at any time, so you best obey, citizen.
Re: Tennessee Makes it Illegal To Share Your Netflix Password
#4Why not just get it over with and send everyone to RIAA-run prison camps?
That's a bit over dramatic. Just because the RIAA sponsored or endorsed a bill doesn't mean its necessarily a bad thing.
Can you provide a reason why it's unreasonable for a company to want each person (or even household) who uses their service to have a separate subscription?
That being said, I haven't read the bill, and only know what the article says about it.
Re: Tennessee Makes it Illegal To Share Your Netflix Password
#5I don't see what justification there is for this being a law. It's simple enough to make it part of the Terms of Service, and then terminate the accounts of anyone who's logged in on more than 10 IP addresses at the same time.
It's fundamentally different from the old "theft of cable" laws where the service provider doesn't have full control over the signal/content.
Re: Tennessee Makes it Illegal To Share Your Netflix Password
#6I don't see what justification there is for this being a law. It's simple enough to make it part of the Terms of Service, and then terminate the accounts of anyone who's logged in on more than 10 IP addresses at the same time. It's fundamentally different from the old "theft of cable" laws where the service provider doesn't have full control over the signal/content.
Yes. This is completely addressable using technology. No need to turn people into criminals. Why can't they just prevent any one account from viewing more than N videos simultaneously? Could make N 1 by default, and then charge people for family packs where N is higher than 1.
Re: Tennessee Makes it Illegal To Share Your Netflix Password
#7Why not just get it over with and send everyone to RIAA-run prison camps?
That's a bit over dramatic. Just because the RIAA sponsored or endorsed a bill doesn't mean its necessarily a bad thing. Can you provide a reason why it's unreasonable for a company to want each person (or even household) who uses their service to have a separate subscription? That being said, I haven't read the bill, and only know what the article says about it.
Using criminal law to deal with it seems like a fairly over-the-top, dramatic step to take. It's not necessarily unreasonable for a company to want each person to have a separate subscription, and they can even mandate it in their terms of service, and take action to terminate the accounts of people violating it. But criminal prosecutions for sharing accounts?
Re: Tennessee Makes it Illegal To Share Your Netflix Password
#8Why not just get it over with and send everyone to RIAA-run prison camps?
That's a bit over dramatic. Just because the RIAA sponsored or endorsed a bill doesn't mean its necessarily a bad thing. Can you provide a reason why it's unreasonable for a company to want each person (or even household) who uses their service to have a separate subscription? That being said, I haven't read the bill, and only know what the article says about it.
While this doesn't necessarily make the bill unreasonable, I'd say there are much better market approaches.
For example, Netflix limits the number of devices you can connect, logs what you watched, and uses your watching habits for recommendations. So, if I were to share my account with others, they'd see everything I watched and anything they watch would alter my recommendations. For those reasons alone, I keep my Netflix account to myself.
Re: Tennessee Makes it Illegal To Share Your Netflix Password
#9How on earth would people legally sell netflix passwords in bulk anyway? This was something that needed to be addressed on the state level because no other laws were being broken in the process? But spam is okay? The lobbyist force these industries have must be insanely powerful and expensive. Well, one more law that the people arresting and judging you are probably breaking themselves or their kids are. I'm pretty s…
That's not what the law is meant to prevent. It's meant to prevent me from sharing my online service (Netflix) account with my mother. It's meant to persuade me to tell my mother to get her own account. Clearly these people don't love their mothers.
Re: Tennessee Makes it Illegal To Share Your Netflix Password
#10Why not just get it over with and send everyone to RIAA-run prison camps?
That's a bit over dramatic. Just because the RIAA sponsored or endorsed a bill doesn't mean its necessarily a bad thing. Can you provide a reason why it's unreasonable for a company to want each person (or even household) who uses their service to have a separate subscription? That being said, I haven't read the bill, and only know what the article says about it.
i dont get why the RIAA is worried, netflix should be MPAA's doing...