Disney+, Hulu and ESPN+ will start cracking down on password sharing | CNN Business
Disney+, Hulu and ESPN+ will start cracking down on password sharing | CNN Business
Disney is banning password sharing on its streaming services, following in the footsteps of competitor Netflix.
Disney+, Hulu and ESPN+ will start cracking down on password sharing | CNN Business::Disney is banning password sharing on its streaming services, following in the footsteps of competitor Netflix.
Arrrr ye mateys.
I really don’t want to. I work in the film industry. I feel like 🏴☠️is like cutting the branch you’re on for me but I can’t afford to keep all those subscriptions, especially when the studios are fuxking us with sand on salaries and making the trikes last all year long. So far, I started soft with movie-web.app for some shows. If they keep on pushing us I will break. It’s not stealing if the other solution is racket.
I don’t like doing it, and I would be thrilled to throw my money at a single service that allows me to stream anything I want at high bitrate 4K. I’d actually be willing to pay a pretty high premium for that. Money is not the issue, it’s the quality of service. I genuinely wish there was a way to pay for a service that benefitted the film industry while providing a quality service to me. Until that’s the case, I’ll continue sailing on a ship that gives me the highest-possible quality content.
Piracy is and always has been a service issue. When a high quality, convenient, affordable service is provided on a consistent basis without endless bullshit, I have no problem paying.
When it constantly feels like I’m being bled dry for every single cent I have just to watch some TV…. Well, arrrrgh
I buy the blu ray versions of stuff I want to support
I subscribed to a pack for "most streaming services in my country" because I earn enough money now and wanted to try being honest. But I will very probably not renew it, I pay 50€/month, but still use Plex almost as often :
- The web apps suck, the mobile ones are often worse (laggy, contrast changes while watching, lack of features ...)
- Some shows are not available in a decent quality : in France we have Kaamelott, owned by Canal+, they probably made an intern upload the episodes so it's only available at 360p
- They try to control what you watch : the "continue watching" section of Netflix has been randomly placed between line 1 and 4 for a while now, seemingly just to push their bulshit recommendation algorithms that will me watch yet another cheap copycat
- Some "premium" movies are not part of any subscription (eg. Puss In Boots 2)
- Some show may not be available anywhere when shady exclusivity contracts expire (eg. "Au service de la France" was only available through piracy last time a friend tried to watch it) ...
Sooooo ... I was ok with the services sucking but I can't be okay with them so obviously not trying to improve.
It's also incredible how I was pirating everything else when I was a teenager (video games, books, audio, ...) and managed to stop almost immediately when I received my first salary.
You pay for x number of simultaneous streams it shouldn't fucking matter who the hell are using it, it's still x number of simultaneous streams.
But hey streaming was good while it lasted and a VPN is cheaper after all.
I feel like we invented streaming to return to cable, it's the same fucking shit.
Saw this coming when Netflix was the only game in town. Corps will enshitify everything when they meddle with shit long enough
And I'll keep enjoying my lifetime Plex pass.
Plex go brrr
Rumors are out that they're gonna try to enshitify Plex too.
Not saying run away, but maybe keep Jellyfin handy.
And this is why I'm using Plex more
That's fine. I'll set up a VPN server at my house, and have my friends and family use it to access my accounts. We'll all look like we are signing in from the same IP.
It will also give them direct access to my media library.
You monster! Won't you think of the shareholders?
I think about them regularly, while polishing my guillotine.
The golden age of television is dead.
They don't realize that they don't have the power of Netflix (who this unfortunately worked for)
Every company out there is talking about record values with their enshittification I'm just over here like, I haven't had a streaming service subscription in 3 years now unless you count YouTube premium and a few subscriptions to content creators on Twitch but I don't really count them cuz it's not a subscribe to get access to content Styles subscription. Like there's only so much the everyday person can take before they just start canceling Subs and then they get no money out of them
Do so, because the ones who do want it will cancel, and the others will keep paying. its to stupid to not react on these kind of stuff, like we do, and keep paying to watch series that last 2-3 season max + ads + price increase and no password sharing. Don't you see it?
Yo ho ho and a bottle of rum.
What do you do with a drunken sailor?
I shut down my subscriptions to every service last year. The only one I have is prime that I pay for because the streaming was a bonus on top of what I was originally paying for. And PlutoTV and Tubi because they're free.
Prime kind of gets you. Anymore if you don't have it, shipping is about as fast, you may have to pay a few bucks. But then Amazon will give you discounts and try to get you to renew your subscription with massive discounts.
Honestly, I have Prime now for the video service more than for the shipping.
Yeah the shipping is now what 2-3 days instead of guaranteed 2 day. So kinda pointless when you get 3-5 day shipping free as long as you spend $35. I only get Prime when they throw in a free trial to an order I already have.
I've barely used the video service. There are so many cheap/free ways to pirate and have everything from everywhere all in one place these days. And without the risk of ISP letters or lawsuits that torrents had in the old days.
Interestingly enough, 2/3 of those are subs I dropped within the last year or so based on a lack of quality/content for what they cost (never bothered with ESPN, NHL games are easy to find). Seems like streaming is starting to collapse a lot quicker than TV did.
Likewise, just cancelled Disney+ and Hulu last month, along with Paramount+, and Netflix.
Only still have AppleTV+ because it's still cheap. And then Max because it's included in our cell service, and Amazon for the shipping, but I don't really use either, and am looking into the feasibility of dropping Prime, if I can convince the wife.
AppleTV+ is still cheap where you live? Here in Europe it went from 4,99€ to 6,99€ and I think they just raised it to 9,99€. They have some great shows but VERY little content all in all. And at a doubled price which now matches all the other services (all around 10€ each) it is just not worth it IMO.
I might get it for one binge-month in the future just to watch Severance season two though. Or… just get it elsewhere…
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Disney is banning password sharing on its streaming services, following in the footsteps of competitor Netflix.
In an email to Hulu subscribers on Wednesday, the company said it would start “adding limitations on sharing your account outside of your household” beginning March 14.
The move was hinted at by Disney CEO Bob Iger in August, who said the company planned to address the issue of password sharing in 2024.
“We certainly have established this as a real priority,” Iger said on Disney’s fiscal third-quarter earnings call.
Disney’s updated user agreement terms came after a successful password-sharing crackdown by Netflix, which led to an explosion in new subscribers as password “borrowers” were pushed into creating their own subscriptions.
Correction: A previous version of this story misstated the day for Disney’s upcoming earnings call.
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Want Disney explicitly cool about it before?
So was Netflix at one point.
No they weren't. It's just a front to get you to buy in and accept them as the good guys. Corps just bait and switch. All that matters is stock ori e. Whatever makes it go up is what they'll do.
Good luck.