UK Intellectual Property Office criminalizes password sharing on Netflix ~ My Mobile India
Netflix is one of the largest OTT platforms where we can watch our favorite movies from different film industries, but sharing passwords has become a potential crime that Great Britain Intellectual Property Office has criminalized doing so.
This comes at an appropriate time as Netflix has also taken a number of measures to prevent password sharing as much as possible, something they hope to achieve eventually due to the severity of the problem.
- Britain’s Intellectual Property Office consider password sharing a potential crime.
- However, the device has only delivered a warning to users, through a guide.
- Netflix has been strongly against sharing passwords.
The Intellectual Property Office, UK, criminalizes password sharing on Netflix
Netflix is without a doubt the largest and most popular OTT platform whose reputation is constantly tested on a regular basis with billions of subscribers worldwide and which continues to grow with each passing day.
People have been constantly sharing passwords on the platform, which is why Netflix has no choice but to start pressuring users worldwide and preventing them from doing so, which is a difficult task to say the least.
In the middle of it all, the one Intellectual Property Office (IPO) i Great Britain has issued a series of guidelines asking users to promote anti-piracy and counterfeiting, and in no way declares that sharing account passwords is now a serious crime similar to sharing your own. login ID and password for Netflix and other services.
Sharing of passwords for streaming services has become a contentious topic recently, which is why the IPO has decided to curb the menace by considering pasting internet images on social media handles without permission, access to movies, TV shows , live sports events via Kodi boxeshacked apps and Fire lighters without permission will be considered copyright infringement and therefore a crime.
Although this new move by the IPO does not mean that there will be a massive change in UK copyright laws, but there will be a number of criminal and civil laws that will soon be put in place to prevent password sharing on Netflix and other similar platforms.
Netflix has also banned the sharing of account passwords, which the platform cited as one of the main reasons for a drop in subscribers for the first time in nearly a decade, which is why the company has planned a revised structure that will allow only one primary subscriber per account and a smaller fee for each sub-account.
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