Sharing Your Netflix, Amazon Prime or HBO Go Password Is Now a Federal Crime

‘Last week, a three-panel federal appeals court decided that sharing passwords to online streaming services like Amazon Prime, Netflix, or HBO Go is crime subject to prosecution under the United States Computer Fraud and Abuse Act.
The decision came as a result of a case involving David Nosal, an employee at the headhunting firm of Korn/Ferry International who continued to access the company’s candidate database — Searcher — using the password of his former assistant.
According to Vice’s Jason Koebler, the prosecution’s case relied on a clause in the U.S. Computer Fraud and Abuse Act that stated that made it a criminal act to “knowingly and with intent to defraud access a protected computer without authorization.”’
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