As HBO's streaming service popularity has taken off, the company has yet to crack down on the sharing of passwords, believing it's a great opportunity to have programming junkies market the brand for you. We all of course already knew that sharing HBO Go passwords was a violation of the anti-circumvention clause of the DMCA and an unholy sin. But according to Charter CEO Tom Rutledge, the sharing of streaming service passwords is also a diabolical theft of content that needs to stop immediately.
Just let me watch Westworld in peace, without crashes. That's all I ask.
Existing HBO subscribers on Amazon will be able to use the HBO Max app at no additional cost.
KnowTechie writes: "This week, we bring the Roundtable together to talk about streaming services, which ones we use, and which ones are lame."