While Netflix might frown on you sharing your password to save a friend or family member a couple of quid a month, the worst fate that would befall password pals until now has been having your recommended section filled with films you'd never watch.
That's all changing though, and with sharing your Netflix password now being made illegal, a bit of rom-com spamming remorse is the least of your worries.
Thanks to a ruling by the US Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in the States, sharing your Netflix password is now a crime prosecutable under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA).
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Although us Brits can still avoid a Netflix-based ticking off from the law, the ruling could have big ramifications for Stateside streamers engaged in the seemingly harmless act of sharing your login details.
The law isn't restricted to Netflix logins either. Sharing any of your computer or subscription service passwords could land you in hot water.
The judgement was made for more serious crimes that threaten the security and privacy of big company data, but Ninth Circuit judge Stephen Reinhardt warned in his dissenting opinion that it could turn thousands into "unwitting federal criminals".
He warned that the ruling "loses sight of the anti-hacking purpose of the CFAA, and... threatens to criminalise all sorts of innocuous conduct engaged in daily by ordinary citizens".
