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"  I use my parents&amp;#039; HBO Go account in my apartment. Are there any legal issues I should be aware of? Will I get into trouble? You probably won&amp;#039;t catch any heat, although what you&amp;#039;re doing is officially against HBO&amp;#039;s terms. Whether you can share logins for any subscription site depends partly on the company&amp;#039;s terms of service and partly on the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA), which makes gaining unauthorized access to information\u2014in this case, unauthorized access to TV shows\u2014a misdemeanor. some sites, such as Netflix and Hulu Plus, acknowledge in their terms of service that subscribers may share their passwords; Netflix limits the number of authorized devices to six and the number of simultaneous streams to two. if you exceed those numbers, an error message will appear. HBO Go and Amazon, in contrast, prohibit password sharing in their terms-of-service agreements, and both allow only one device to stream at a time. Additionally, Amazon says you can&amp;#039;t distribute any &amp;quot;digital content&amp;quot; to third parties, and HBO says that the only people who can legally use the service are those who subscribe to TV services that carry HBO. (HBO Go does allow subscribers to have three separate accounts so that household members can watch different shows at the same time.) Despite what the TOS says, it is rarely, if ever, enforced. &amp;quot;The Department of Justice has taken the position that a violation of terms of service is criminal unauthorized access under the CFAA,&amp;quot; says Kurt Opsahl, a senior staff attorney at the Electronic Frontier Foundation. But, he points out, the DOJ&amp;#039;s position has been rejected by federal courts. And, he adds, &amp;quot;so far the service providers have not been particularly upset.&amp;quot; To be really safe, you should check to see whether your state has any laws that specifically aim to curtail sharing video accounts. Tennessee, for example, passed the Web Entertainment Theft Bill in 2011, which makes it illegal to stream music and videos from paid services using logins that aren&amp;#039;t your own. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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