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HBO Max will crack down on password sharing starting next month
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HBO Max计划从9月开始强制执行每月额外收费8美元的密码共享政策,此前该费用可选。Warner Bros. Discovery也将在8月底加强监管,对非家庭成员观众收取每月7.99美元。这一举措类似Netflix、Disney+等平台的做法,旨在应对流媒体行业每年可能损失250亿美元的密码共享问题。Netflix在禁用密码共享后新增近590万用户,显示打击措施有效。

📢 HBO Max将从9月起强制收取每月8美元的密码共享费用,此前为可选服务。

🛑 Warner Bros. Discovery将在8月底加强监管,非家庭成员观众需支付每月7.99美元,此前限制未严格执行。

💰 流媒体行业因密码共享每年可能损失高达250亿美元,Netflix禁用后新增近590万用户,显示政策有效性。

🔍 公司已测试数月以识别合法用户,将监管措施集中于非家庭观众。

📈 类似Netflix、Disney+等平台的相似行动,正成为行业应对盗用问题的趋势。

    HBO Max intends to aggressively crack down on password sharing. The company, which has given users the option to pay an additional $8 per month to share passwords outside the home will begin to make that fee mandatory starting in September.

The watch party is over for people who have been freeloading on their subscription to HBO Max.

Warner Bros. Discovery says it will begin to more aggressively going after people share passwords on a recent earnings call. People who insist on adding viewers outside of their household will be asked to pay an additional $7.99 per month.

That fee has actually been in place for a while, but the restrictions haven’t been strongly enforced. That ends at the end of August, said WBD Streaming Chief JB Perrette.

The company, Perrette said, has been testing for months to determine “who’s a legitimate user who may not be a legitimate user.” With that determined, he said, “we are putting the net in the right place, so to speak.”

Warner Bros. Discovery has been threatening a crackdown on password sharing for over a year. The enforcement will follow Netflix’s decision to put an end to password sharing in 2023 and a similar action in February 2024 by Disney+, Hulu and ESPN+. Disney CEO Bob Iger said the issue was “a real priority” in an earnings call with analysts in 2023.

Password sharing has become a problem for all streaming services and could cost the industry up to $25 billion a year, according to a Citibank report. Netflix said in 2022 that more than 100 million households are using accounts paid for by other people.

Crackdowns drive subscriptions, though. Netflix saw a big surge in sign-ups after it prohibited the sharing of user passwords. Subscriber growth in the quarter following the action saw 5.9 million new users, nearly three times what analysts had estimated.

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