![]() ![]() If the government proved that the information stolen reached $5,000, someone could potentially face a felony with a sentence of multiple years in prison. Forbes points out that a crafty prosecutor could also claim that using an HBO Go password without paying is a form of identity theft. College Humor even made a video mocking the whole phenomenon, saying HBO Go sounds “illogical” and that sharing passwords is “basically stealing.”Īctually, sharing passwords is stealing under the current Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, which makes it a misdemeanor with a maximum one-year prison sentence to “obtain without authorization information from a protected computer.” It is also a violation of the Digital Millennium Copy Act because it is knowingly circumventing a protection measure set up to prevent someone from watching content like “Game of Thrones” without paying. In a recent New York Times article No TV? No Subscription? No Problem?, Jenna Wortham noted how she used, “the information of a guy in New Jersey that I had once met in a Mexican restaurant.” Dave Their of Forbes admitted that he used his sister’s boyfriend’s father’s account in exchange for his Netflix information. “Game of Thrones” was illegally downloaded at a rate of 3 million times per episode.įor users not comfortable with piracy, another option has grown increasingly popular among “Game of Thrones” fans - sharing HBO account information. The restricted access for HBO programming led “Game of Thrones” to break piracy records and become the most downloaded television show of 2012. Nobody wanted to be left out, but in an increasingly cord-cut world, comparatively few people have cable subscriptions to HBO, the only channel that broadcasts “Game of Thrones.” HBO does have a video streaming service, HBO Go, but you still need a cable subscription to access it. ![]() ![]() ![]() The third season of HBO’s fantasy-drama series “Game of Thrones” was arguably the hottest and most-talked about television event of the year. ![]()
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