{"id":1696,"date":"2011-06-12T09:38:40","date_gmt":"2011-06-12T14:38:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/?p=1696"},"modified":"2011-06-12T09:38:40","modified_gmt":"2011-06-12T14:38:40","slug":"share-netflix-share-a-jail-cell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/?p=1696","title":{"rendered":"Share Netflix? Share a jail cell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 if you, a consumer, should share (that&#8217;s the &#8220;any other means&#8221; part), say, your Netflix password with someone else, whether that someone else is related to you or not, that person could be prosecuted.<\/p>\n<p>The penalty for infringement? &#8220;Stealing $500 or less of entertainment would be a misdemeanor punishable by up to one year in jail and a fine of $2,500. Theft with a higher price tag would be a felony, with heavier penalties.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>While it is true that the intent of the bill was to address the blatant illegal sharing of entertainment content by the likes of those legions of scofflaws called &#8220;pirates&#8221; or &#8220;students,&#8221; the potentially ridiculously wide net it casts is ripe for abuse by Big Media.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.networkworld.com\/columnists\/2011\/060911-backspin.html\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.networkworld.com\/columnists\/2011\/060911-backspin.html <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 if you, a consumer, should share (that&#8217;s the &#8220;any other means&#8221; part), say, your Netflix password with someone else, whether that someone else is related to you or not, that person could be prosecuted. The penalty for infringement? &#8220;Stealing $500 or less of entertainment would be a misdemeanor punishable by up to one year [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1696"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1696"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1696\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1698,"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1696\/revisions\/1698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}