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Originally Posted by RainingLemur
Account sharing now against the law? I had heard about this happening with Netflix earlier this week... While it makes some sense, it still strikes me as stupid overall.
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One thing to consider is that not only does each company have a different definition of what constitutes account sharing, the violation has to be pretty blatant to qualify. In other words, Amazon allows multiple devices that they KNOW are not all being used by one person. While it's not tested yet, it could be interpreted that Amazon has family-type sharing enabled and permitted because of the way it works, despite the legalese in the TOS. eBook clubs consisting of several non-related people would be seen as a violation.
iTunes allows multiple computers/devices. Napster allows multiple computers/devices (although I'm on an older plan and they've changed so it may not be true for newer accounts). Netflix allows access from multiple computers/devices...
Small-scale family or household-type sharing isn't really at risk, nor is it intended to be. They're after bigger fish. The state/local prosecution doesn't have the money to throw at "grey-area" cases. They're only going to spend money on the real problems.