Though sharing passwords is now technically a federal crime, companies like Netflix Inc. and HBO are still all but shrugging off friends, family and significant others using each other’s accounts.

The U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals last week ruled that sharing online passwords is a crime prosecutable under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act. In Judge Stephen Reinhardt’s dissenting opinion, he noted the ruling could impact the likes of Netflix NFLX, -0.05% and Time Warner Inc.’s US:TWX HBO members, as well as other consensual password sharing.

“The majority does not provide, nor do I see, a workable line which separates the consensual password sharing in this case from the consensual password sharing of millions of legitimate account holders,” Reinhardt wrote in his argument.

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HBO said it didn’t have enough information on the case to comment, and though Netflix declined to comment on the court ruling, a spokeswoman said the company’s position on password sharing hasn’t changed.

Netflix has said in the past that it doesn’t track the number of people sharing account passwords because it’s difficult to do. So the good news is the two companies don’t see password sharing as an issue for them; it can even be a good thing. So right now there’s not much cause for concern.

Netflix Chief Executive Reed Hastings told reporters at CES earlier this year that people who piggyback on a user’s account often go on to become paying members themselves, according to Tech Crunch.

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“We love people sharing Netflix whether they’re two people on a couch or 10 people on a couch. That’s a positive thing, not a negative thing,” Hastings told reporters. He went on to say, “As kids move on in their life, they like to have control of their life, and as they have an income, we see them separately subscribe. It really hasn’t been a problem.”

HBO Chief Executive Richard Plepler told BuzzFeed in 2014 that password sharing wasn’t a problem and helped expose the brand. Let’s not forget Andy Samberg giving out the username and password to a working HBO Now account during the 2015 Emmys broadcast, which HBO gave the go-ahead for.

“It’s not that we’re unmindful of it, but it has no real effect on the business,” Plepler said during the BuzzFeed event.

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The case the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled on last week involved David Nosal, a former employee of executive recruiting firm Korn Ferry, who used an employee’s password to access firm data after his credentials had been revoked.

“I would hold that consensual password sharing is not the kind of ‘hacking’ covered by the [Computer Fraud and Abuse Act],” Reinhardt wrote.