Who owns your HBO password? A new book explores the hidden rules of ownership â of streaming accounts, pharmaceuticals, and the space behind a reclining airplane seat. By David Scharfenberg Globe Staff,Updated March 4, 2021, 3:38 p.m. Email to a Friend Why is it that most of us wouldnât dream of stealing a DVD of âGame of Thrones,â but many of us are willing to share an HBO password?Helen Sloan/HBO via AP In the summer of 2014, businessman James Beach boarded a Newark-to-Denver flight and deployed the Knee Defender, a $22 plastic brace that prevented the woman in front of him from reclining.