Comment on Disney Plus begins crackdown against password sharing

yeather@lemmy.ca ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• yetAnotherUser@lemmy.ca ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Litterally this. I won’t (and most people won’t) feel morally wrong once I stop paying for Disney’s content.

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  • RaoulDook@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I mean if you were sharing someone’s password, wouldn’t you already not be paying? If you were paying for an account, you would have your own password so this would not be an issue.

    I’m not pointing this out to be “pro Disney” because I couldn’t give a half-shit there, but I always have to remind people that password sharing is bad security and shouldn’t be done.

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    • qwertyqwertyqwerty@lemmy.one ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Some legit customers are fucked by the anti-password sharing methods some companies have used. Hulu, for instance, locks you out of live TV service if your IP address changes more than 4 times in a year. My ISP goes down a couple times a week, and changes my IP address every time. Every 4th time, I need to call Hulu and inform them that I, in fact, have not relocated my television, and it remains bolted to the wall. My ISP wants $40/month for a static IP address, so it’s in their best interest to keep changing my IP address as often as possible.

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      • tristan@aussie.zone ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        The Netflix one screwed me… I go to hospital 3 times a week for 5 hours of dialysis. But Netflix viewed that as a second household and wanted me to pay for a second account to use my own account in 2 locations

        Now I pay for zero accounts and still get any Netflix shows I want through alternative methods

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      • Evilcoleslaw@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Well that’s another reason I’m glad I didn’t go with Hulu with Live TV. The main reason being they solely rely on IP geolocation from what I can tell, which is generally trash. With YouTube TV if the location is incorrect at least I have the option of logging in to verify my actual location using my phone.

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    • yeather@lemmy.ca ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I have 2 homes, I’m not paying for Hulu twice.

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      • RaoulDook@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Haha let me play the world’s smallest violin for your sad situation there.

        I have only one home, but I actually did pay for Hulu twice by accident when I realized that 2 of us had an active account. Canceled the extra one immediately so I’m only paying for one. But it was only about $8 per month for a few months, so I didn’t quite starve.

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    • a4ng3l@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      As long as you segregate credentials and whichever service you’re sharing doesn’t expose any critical data like cc info what’s the risk?

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      • lemmyvore@feddit.nl ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        That’s the thing, it’s usually just the one set of credentials and it has access to everything. Although to be fair they don’t store the actual CC details anymore, just bank tokens.

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      • RaoulDook@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Reinforcing bad habits

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