The days of being able to share a single streaming service account with your family and friends are quickly coming to an end. Max, the Warner Bros. Discovery-owned streaming service formerly known as HBO Max, is the latest company to announce that it will be cracking down on accounts it suspects of password-sharing. SEE ALSO: … Read more
Be warned, all ye who watch House of the Dragon thanks to your parents’ Max account: A password-sharing crackdown is coming. Warner Bros. Discovery, Max’s parent company, plans to launch the restrictions in late 2024, WBD’s head of global streaming and games, JB Parrette, said at Morgan Stanley’s Technology, Media & Telecom Conference on Monday. … Read more
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Disney’s password-sharing crackdown will officially begin this summer. During an earnings call on Wednesday, Disney chief financial officer Hugh Johnston said Disney Plus accounts “suspected of improper sharing” will see an option to sign up for their own subscription. Disney will also start letting account holders add people outside their household for an “additional fee” … Read more
Disney Just a few months after the initiative was officially announced, the Disney+ password-sharing crackdown is hitting the US. Earlier today, US subscribers to the streaming service began receiving emails detailing new changes to its terms of service. Among those changes is a prohibition against using login information that isn’t yours and an acknowledgment that … Read more
Jakub Porzycki/NurPhoto via Getty Images Following in the footsteps of Disney+, Hulu has started its own crackdown on password sharing. In an email to subscribers Wednesday, the Disney-owned company notified users of a change to the terms of service — a change specifically related to password sharing. “We’re adding limitations on sharing your account outside … Read more
If it’s not the company motto yet, it should be: Never count Netflix out. On Wednesday, the streaming giant beat Wall Street projections by reporting a gain of nearly 9 million new subscribers worldwide and $8.5 billion in revenue for the third quarter of 2023, a nearly 8 percent increase year-over-year. While that might all … Read more
Antenna When Netflix began its crackdown on password sharing in Could, the final consensus from social media customers was that they had been completed with the service. Numbers from June, nonetheless, confirmed the streaming big had truly seen a file variety of signups. Additionally: Plot twist: Netflix lets subscribers preserve unreturned DVDs totally free If there … Read more
The Walt Disney Co. is planning its personal password-sharing crackdown for its world streaming prospects, following in Netflix’s footsteps. Disney CEO Bob Iger made the announcement in the course of the firm’s third-quarter earnings name on Wednesday, saying that the corporate is “actively exploring methods to handle account-sharing and the perfect choices for paying subscribers.” … Read more
Sheldon Cooper/SOPA Photographs/LightRocket by way of Getty Photographs Sharing a Netflix account with another person outdoors your house? You are not alone, and Netflix is not pleased about it. The corporate is now charging its account holders $7.99 for every extra consumer. In an in depth letter to shareholders final month, Netflix defined the plans for a … Read more