Types of License Violations
A type of license violation is the sharing of passwords. Often, when a publisher sells subscriptions to proprietary content, it is protected by a password feature. When a user shares his password with another person who has not paid to view the content, he is at the very least violating the contract under which the password was supplied, and is possibly also violating the copyright right to distribution. Publishers depend on selling multiple subscriptions in order to pay for the content you receive. Unless your license specifically states otherwise, you should have a separate subscription-and therefore a separate password-for each person who will be accessing the content. Sharing passwords is just as wrong as sharing copies.
Publishers often include contracts with many copyright licenses that specify what the user can and cannot do with the content. Subscription agreements often not only prevent copying, but also might include other, non-copyright-related restrictions as well.
A license contract might prohibit subscribers from disclosing sensitive information contained in the copyrighted work in any way. In those cases, even if the user does not infringe the owner's copyright, the user can still be liable to the copyright owner under a breach of contract action. Such contracts put users on notice about use restrictions under the copyright license, so that the owner can use it in a potential lawsuit to establish 'wilfulness', and thereby to increase the damages award.