Senator Joyce Mc Joyce, Representative of the Democratic Party, is determined to pass the bill to ban the sharing of Netflix passwords. This illegal file sharing has caused the Recording Industry Association of America to fall from $15 billion to $7 billion within the past 10 years. Senator Joyce focuses specifically on stopping hackers from sharing files in bulk; however, every day households may be affected as well. To get the public on board with this bill, you have to make sure they know that they’re day-to-day lives will most likely not be affected as long as they’re not sharing their passwords with multiple people. If they think sharing with one person will get them in trouble, that’ll make them completely against the bill.
“I doubt the law would be used to ban people in the same household from sharing subscriptions, and that small-scale violations involving a few people would be hard to detect,” said Bill Ramsey, a Nashville lawyer.
This quote helped the audience calm down and realize it’s meant to attack bulk hackers that are causing this industry to lose billions each year. Although it is unlikely that a single household will be questioned, sharing an accounts password to 10 people or more will cause an investigation in the suspicious activity. Personal information is continuing to get hacked and the sharing of these accounts is making it much easier for this to happen. Relating the issue to the audience is the main persuasion technique because it makes them care a lot more. Obviously no one wants to get hacked so if they know this bill is helping them rather than harming them, they’ll be much more persuaded.