If you use your ex’s Max password to watch the current season of Curb Your Enthusiasm, beware: You might need to get your house (of the dragon) in order soon. The corporate masters behind Max, AKA Warner Bros. Discovery, say they are planning to crack down on the sharing of Max passwords in 2024. At a … Read more
If you’re a Disney+ subscriber, you likely received an email today alerting you to the fact that the service was updating its “Subscriber Agreement.” The new rules took effect on January 25 for first-time users, while they go into effect on March 14 for existing subscribers. The email notes several changes to the company’s policies.. Among … Read more
Disney+ users who borrow passwords may find themselves forced to get their own accounts, which will also go up in price. The House of Mouse is about to shrink the extended family room, as Disney+ will begin limiting password sharing beginning next year. In a Q3 earnings call, CEO Bob Iger said that plans to … Read more
After Netflix decided to institute policies to get rid of password sharing, they added millions of new subscribers. It looks like Disney is hoping to emulate their success. While Netflix’s new policy about sharing accounts wasn’t popular with the public, the results (at least financially) speak for themselves. And now Disney says it is planning on following suit in … Read more
Despite the extreme unpopularity of Netflix’s crackdown on password sharing, it seems to have worked out, at least in the short-term. Even though the service lost one million subscribers in the second quarter of 2022, Netflix’s subscriber numbers made a comeback. In its most recent quarterly report, Netflix boasts a gain of almost six million … Read more
Despite widespread criticism over its crackdown on password sharing, netflix reported a subscriber increase in their second-quarter 2023 earnings on Wednesday. How many new subscribers did Netflix gain? While analysts had initially projected that Netflix would see an increase of about 1.7 million new subscribers in Q2, the company actually reported a whopping 5.89 million … Read more
As they predicted, Netflix saw a rise in new subscribers following their initiation of a plan to limit password sharing. The decision by Netflix to start putting pressure on users who share their passwords – and, of course, those that were on the other side of that deal – was met with a lot of … Read more
US users of Netflix may find their password sharing abilities no longer available, possibly forcing many into their own subscriptions. Still catching up on love is blind but don’t have a Netflix account? Well, you might want to figure out how to scrounge up $6.99 because Netflix is officially making good on their promise to … Read more
For years now, Netflix has threatened to crack down on password sharing among its millions of members (and their moms and dads and ex-husbands and so on). But now the plans are beginning in earnest in the US And if Netflix has its way, anyone who is using another subscriber’s account for free will now … Read more