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Maybe by tracking which IP address someone logs in from? But even then, you could just say you were at a friend's house. I don't see how they could enforce this unless they forced you to only log in from a single computer.
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Funny, the article dealt with exactly that.
quote:Those who share their subscriptions with a spouse or other family members under the same roof 'almost certainly' have nothing to fear.
Blatant offenders - say, college students who give their logins to everyone on their dormitory floor - could get in trouble, however.
'What becomes not legal is if you send your user name and password to all your friends so they can get free subscriptions,' said the bill's House sponsor, Rep. Gerald McCormick.
Under the measure, download services that believe they are getting ripped off can go to law enforcement authorities and press charges.
I suspect they would track both the actual IP addresses and WHEN they are being used. After all, you can only be one place at a time, but if you have given out your password to 19 other people, 20 different locations could be using that same password at once.
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That was my first thought - I think anyone who allows multiple people to use the same password at once is just an idiot. I don't have a problem with the idea behind the law, I just have a problem with this particular thing being the govnerment's responsibility.
You could hypothetically still have a few different people using a particular account at different times, but that's harder to coordinate.
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Seems like they should just disallow multiple logins using the same password using software. And then time out the login after a reasonable timeframe, so someone who accidentally left themselves logged in at a hotel could still get their account back from home.
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quote:Originally posted by Lyrhawn: Maybe by tracking which IP address someone logs in from? But even then, you could just say you were at a friend's house. I don't see how they could enforce this unless they forced you to only log in from a single computer.
My IP address changes almost daily due to my switching between Wi-Fi hotspots and Verizon broadband.
If they do go by IP, I assume they check for concurrent users in the same manner that Steam does, for example.
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