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Disney’s password-sharing crackdown has begun (www.theverge.com)
submitted 11 months ago by ComfortablyGlum@sh.itjust.works to c/technology@lemmy.world
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It’s now explicitly against Disney Plus’s policies for Canadian subscribers to share passwords outside of their household.

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[–] uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone 14 points 11 months ago (2 children)

May it go as well as the Netflix password-sharing crackdown (id est, followed by a flood of unsubscribes).

[–] IdleSheep@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

I hate Netflix as much as the next guy but let's not shield our eyes from reality. Their move was actually very successful. A small percentage of people unsubscribed, but that number was dwindled by the number of new subscribers. Netflix basically proved that people for the most part don't care and will subscribe just to keep watching. Of course Disney and others will follow suit after seeing that.

[–] atrielienz@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

We don't have the metrics yet to see if they stay subscribed. Look at it this way, Lemmy grows and shrinks by leaps and bounds every time reddit does something crazy. Same principle. This also doesn't take into account people wanting to subscribe to finish a show and then unsubscribe afterwards.