Disney+ to Start Cracking Down on Password Sharing in November

[Stromos]

Been thinking about it I really only want to stream a small handful of shows that I already own. Streaming was the convenience of not having to swap Blu-ray’s to have a favorite show on in the background every five episodes or being able to jump episodes quickly.

I need to see how much space it will really take up on my Plex server to rip 10 seasons of a show. It’s more me being lazy than anything else. Also tired of these companies remastering certain shows but not providing a Blu-ray version.

If it doesn’t take a ton of space I think that’s going to be my solution.

 

[Alan Wynn]

what netflix did not report are all the people that discontinued service with them.

Which likely benefits them as they do not have to pay to deliver them content at an unsustainable price.

 

[anek007]

Not exactly apples-to-apples. If I subscribe to cable tv, I can’t lend that to you, you have to get your own cable tv.

Most cable tv service has an app now so yes i can lend it to my family.

 

[ranmasaotomes]

Companies that want to do this, give ME more options.

Netflix has it where if you want to have 4K, you need to get a plan with 4 screens. Im not at the point yet where I can watch 4 screens at once

Don't give us the. Pay X and use on X amount of screens, then say we can't use it.

 

[jeroenvip]

After netflix is bye bye disney hello popcorntime. Why pay for something when its free on popcorntime.

 

[_Refurbished_]

I have never understood why password sharing was considered legitimate on a paid for service. I know Netflix actively encouraged the practice for a while, which makes it difficult to accept them removing the privilege. However in this case it was never a legitimate option and we should be prepared to pay for an ad free service. Now if they add ads. then it is a different matter because I will never pay a company to deliver advertising to my house and the service should be free.

You'd be in the large minority as cable tv provided ads to all of America for decades before Netflix.

 

[LedRush]

I like it when these companies make it easier for me to save money by cancelling their services.

 

[DavidMalcolm]

If they crack down that’ll just mean our family of four cancels our subscription. I mostly watch MCU stuff on there though after Secret Invasion I think they should probably give up on creating MCU shows.

Some of the Star Wars stuff is okay, and Only Murders in the Building and some of the FX content. But overall there’s a lot of random crap much of which isn’t good.

 

[xDKP]

Was quitting anyway because of the price increases.

Have been an annual subscriber since day 1. My 6 year old granddaughter is going to have to get a job mowing lawns.

We have cancelled as well - if we include the first year with introduction 12 months price, they are now charging over double from the fall renewal - And ALL new Disney content is really crappy and just destroying all the franchises they own.

 

[contacos]

Netflix still hasn’t blocked me on Apple TV. Still using my family account from Mexico all the way in Germany.

Also D+ is the first to go. I have seen all the Marvel movies at the cinema, own all the classic animated movies on BluRay and their D+ Originals always get cancelled after one season unless it’s Marvel or Star Wars anyway.

 

[svish]

Should bring in more revenues with this move. Everyone will start cracking down on password sharing.

 

[Boeingfan]

What irritates me is I have two houses. Why should I pay double for a service? I can only be at one house at a time.
Just not worth it. I remember when I would complain about DirecTV and cable. Streaming was gonna save so much money.
Exact opposite is the case.
Amazon Prime, Netflix, Disney+, Max, Peacock, Paramount+, Discovery, Hulu, Motor Trend, Discovery Plus... I have them all and still struggle to find a decent movie or show to watch more often than not. Now they want to charge me per location?!?! Nope.
Ready to drop the lot and go back to cable.... WAY cheaper.

Tubi

 

[iSayuSay]

if I buy a book I can lend it to a friend. kinda sick of people normalizing digital goods as these rented services from companies we have no rights to.

If I'm paying for it I'll do what I want with it

In this case, you don't buy that book. You subscribe a library membership for which you have access to all their collections.
But you rent that book to another person in hope you a net zero for the library membership.

I don't think it's the same idea as you "buy a book and lend it to a friend".

 

[contacos]

Which likely benefits them as they do not have to pay to deliver them content at an unsustainable price.

They actually got more money from us before all this non sense. Sharing a Premium UHD account divided by 2 made them more money than 2 people on a single ad free account

 

[dwtd]

Most cable tv service has an app now so yes i can lend it to my family.

Wrong. I was clearly referring to traditional cable service, which I pointed out to someone else who made the same disingenuous point as you. Good luck stretching a length of coax across state lines to share your cable.

 

[RowellE]

Shoot. If D+ does it then Hulu will be right after. 🤬😭

 

[Tiago L]

I don’t disagree with the password sharing crackdown - I would never share my password with anybody! However I think people should have that option when signing up, paying an extra of course.

 

[vmistery]

It’s about time these streaming services realised single people exist who have smaller budgets. Give me a cheaper full spec single stream option without Ads, this applies to all the major platforms. They could even do a £2.99 tier or something for those of us who may only stream 20 hours or less a month

 

[anek007]

Wrong. I was clearly referring to traditional cable service, which I pointed out to someone else who made the same disingenuous point as you. Good luck stretching a length of coax across state lines to share your cable.

Cable service has updated. Guess youre still living in the past if its just on your tv. Cable service can be streamed now.

 

[wikiverse]

It's a really good question. And when you're talking 1/2 billion loss for the quarter (~$2 billion a year), that's not the kind of thing doing a little cutting back and increasing efficiencies will fix. Rather horrified if the numbers are legit (not numbers pushed here and there on purpose), as i like the service...but this is the kind of losses that provokes whether the service is doable.

Disney have actually been losing $1Bn per quarter for 13 consecutive quarters. The ONLY reason that dropped to 1/2 billion is because they put the first few episodes of Andor and Ms Marvel on ABC - meaning they could push the production expenditure off the Disney+ ledger and onto ABC's costs.

They also cancelled Spiderwick Chronicles and Nautilus, both of which cost over $200M, to remove them from the Disney+ ledger. Both shows were already filmed and finished. They just had to release them. Instead they're trying to sell them to other streamers and broadcasters internationally to recoup that money - otherwise they'll write off the loss and use them as a tax deduction.

Disney is $14 Billion in the hole on D+ just from their operations and have absolutely no prospect of turning it around. They're also on the hook for up to $25Bn more to acquire the last 33% of Hulu from Comcast.

They also bought Fox for $71.3Bn just for the back catalogue of content to put on D+. That puts them in a negative position of $85.3Bn plus whatever Hulu costs them.

 

[Hudzilla95]

I love that these companies (Disney, Netflix ect.) want to stop password sharing but Apple introduced iCloud family password sharing in iOS17... 🤣

 

[Onelifenofear]

if I buy a book I can lend it to a friend. kinda sick of people normalizing digital goods as these rented services from companies we have no rights to.

If I'm paying for it I'll do what I want with it

Nope completely wrong.

With streaming you are renting. Same way as you rent a car or DVD. It's not yours you are just borrowing it for the time you watch it.

You can still buy all this stuff as real goods if you want.
Books, CD, Bluerays - All are generally expensive.
Or you can buy the Digital Files of each and still lend them out ( for the most part )

How much would the Disney Library ( or whatever streaming service you like ) cost - Many, Many thousands of $£.

Physical Item = Expensive / owned
Digital Item = Cheap / owned
Streaming = Super cheap / borrowed

 

[wikiverse]

Shoot. If D+ does it then Hulu will be right after. 🤬😭

Disney is likely going to roll Hulu's catalogue into Disney+ completely when they acquire the last third of it.

Personally I can't wait for the Handmaid's Tale/Bluey crossover.

 

[Onelifenofear]

people used to share cable all the time it just wasn't legal because the law is designed for corporate profit

Um... Or for actually paying people to work places. Yhe Law is really obvious regarding that. Should you be allowed to stack 2 people on a seat on an airplane? Or how about having 10 people in a cinema on the one ticket?

How about pirating games and software. My friend runs a small games company with 15 staff. Their game had 4x as many pirated people playing that actually paid. He just had to lay 8 of them off.

 

[laptech]

All it takes is one company to start doing something and then the domino effect starts to stake shape where one after the other companies start to do the same once they see how the first company done it.