Disney says it will crack down on password sharing, following Netflix's lead
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Disney CEO Bob Iger said Wednesday Disney will begin rolling out a crackdown on password sharing for its streaming services next year.

The company will roll out tactics to mitigate password sharing in 2024. While Iger said Disney should see some effects from the rollout in 2024, the initiatives to prevent password sharing won’t be completed next year.

    • archonet@lemmy.world
      32·
      2 years ago

      Not with me, they didn’t. Being able to help out a few friends was the last thing keeping me on Netflix, so with the account sharing restrictions I cancelled, bought a lifetime Plex pass (which was more just to show my support for them not being a shitty company), and now I just use my PC as a media server and pirate all my shit. And I can still share it all with friends!

  • gndagreborn@lemmy.world
    23·
    2 years ago

    I had to get a graphics card for my plex server to handle the number of my friends transcoding because of the Netflix password crackdown.

  • Copernican@lemmy.world
    8·
    2 years ago

    I know we all PW share, but I have no moral argument why we should be able to PW share. Never understood why so many people get pissed off about these crackdowns. Good TV is kind of expensive to make.

    Edit: in this thread, people that don’t understand the economics of TV and media.

    • t0lo@lemmy.world
      16·
      2 years ago

      That argument would work if most of the media companies profits went to the people who worked on the show and not billionaire executives

    • comfortablyglum@sh.itjust.works
      7·
      2 years ago

      1- If I’m paying to stream on more than 1 TV, I should get to choose which tv.

      2- Disney makes billions, if not trillions, of dollars a year… their tv sucks.