04/29/2003
Since offering a free 30 day password to NetPics with every video purchase, we've seen our bandwidth usage triple. After looking into the reasons for this, it seems that we have some members who have been "sharing" their passwords. Bear in mind that this is a violation of our terms of service. We have already shut off 6 passwords for obvious sharing. If you share your password with someone else, we will find out, because we're now tracking IP addresses. Any user, paying member or free password for video purchase, who shares his password will have his access shut off permanently and will be blocked from signing up for new membership.
Curt