We’re in favor of theft now? Do we all think it is fair to pay for one person to use a service and have him allow all of his friends to have access?
If I am running a business off my server, which, I think is how these things work, then I need to have some protocol in place to limit who is able to access the service I am providing.
Would that be so difficult to do?
Hold on a moment here. Where do you get theft from? This is a company seeking to extend the terms of a contract outside of the business relationship and put enforcement clauses in that can be used to put someone in jail.
This is a private business dispute between their customers and the company. Since the company doesn’t want to tick off their users by putting in account restrictions, they’ve decided to convince legislators to enforce the contract with possible jail time.
Netflix could easily restrict by IP, distribute a key CD (like they have in the past) or put other restrictions in place. They don’t want to.