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Re:Why I Bid $700 for a Stolen PSN Account by thaumasiotes on Tuesday October 09, 2018 @08:14PM (#18180911)
One reason this issue isn't explored much is that it doesn't have much in the way of practical implications. You don't need permission from Movies Anywhere to inherit your parents' Movies Anywhere account -- as long as you learn the password, you can just use the account without bothering to notify Movies Anywhere of anything.
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Re:Why I Bid $700 for a Stolen PSN Account by WorldMaker on Wednesday October 10, 2018 @12:42PM (#18186554)
Right, but this isn't protected anywhere. It's a fragile practicality. If you inherit that shared password do you inherit the right to recover it if you lose it again? Movies Anywhere is locked to a certain number of devices, do you have the right to unlock/remove old devices of the original account holder?

At one point I debated trying to build a system to help escrow digital asset things like passwords in Trust for the purposes of wills/digital estate planning/inheritance, but quickly realized the first major flaw of that is that as soon as you try to systematize it you immediately get into a fight over how much it violates various terms of service agreements forbidding account and password sharing entirely.

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Re:Why I Bid $700 for a Stolen PSN Account by thaumasiotes on Wednesday October 10, 2018 @05:13PM (#18188955)
You're right, but I would still bet that the sheer ease of working around the issue stunts the development of formal legal approaches to it.

Which isn't necessarily a bad thing. I'd rather have established practice dictate the law than the other way around.

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Re:Why I Bid $700 for a Stolen PSN Account by Gaelan on Wednesday October 10, 2018 @01:19AM (#18182173)
Until they find out and kill your account.
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Re:Why I Bid $700 for a Stolen PSN Account by thaumasiotes on Wednesday October 10, 2018 @05:39AM (#18183319)
Find out how?
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Re:Why I Bid $700 for a Stolen PSN Account by TeMPOraL on Wednesday October 10, 2018 @07:35AM (#18183837)
Through ubiquitous tracking.
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