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That's completely reasonable. As is Netflix putting "only one household" in their ToS.

It'd be unreasonable if there was a specific law on the books in Japan that says if you loan out your rail pass you're branded a criminal (which in the case of Japan means you're deported for life) and get jail time, instead of them just taking it away from you and saying "you broke the terms, no more rail pass for you".

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I don't think that you necessarily will get jail time. The new law elevates theft of entertainment services to the same level as theft of other services. In practice, I think theft of services is mostly punished by a fine.

But in theory, according to the old law you actually could go to jail for loaning out your rail pass in Tennessee. So actually all the people who are upset about this law should first focus on the existing law.

In most public transit systems I have had a pass on, they have the authority to fine you for trying to share a pass... That seems to be what this law is going for. Content providers currently only have the recourse of cutting you off, now they can fine.

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