Federal court rules that sharing your Netflix password is a federal crime

Good luck with that. People have weak passwords on lots of systems, it is quite often not possible to separate using a weak password and having an account compromised from having a password shared.

So essentially, now having a weak password is a federal crime.

And that's besides password re-use which frequently leads to accounts on all kinds of systems being compromised.

I understand what the judge is trying to achieve (to make sure that one 'buyer' of a netflix subscription equates to one consumer) but the side-effects of this ruling are considerable and very wrong.

Less linkbait at Motherboard: https://motherboard.vice.com/read/password-sharing-is-a-fede...

A submission: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12048621