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HBO Max Password Sharing Crackdown Getting Serious in September
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Create a VPN at the owners home, connect with openVPN client at the second home, profit.... ?
It’s better if you can manage to stop watching TV altogether! My problem is feeling as if I need to content max, and play something in the background of what I’m working on.
How does your work? You can PM me . The zero buffering is of particular interest to me. Although I've found alternatives that paliate this very issue , I remain very curious of other people's workarounds
Guys, I swear the slippery slope doesn’t exist, I promise.
Maybe cause we were told to share
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Most people I know sharing passwords aren’t conspiring to scam streamers. Most situations are things like having a kid or two in college, sharing while dating, or having a vacation condo where you want to be able to sign in without disrupting the rest of the family back home.
were you subscribed thru apple? the same thing happened to me with paramount - i think i had access for almost 2 years after i canceled.
I use showrss + 1337x
I get a notification when a new episode comes up. Then 1337x. That way I don’t have to worry about checking what’s available.
Netflix was convenient but when they hiked their price for the first time, I did what many said they were going to do. Also, the only subscription I have is for my VPN ($3/month).
I get a notification when a new episode comes up. Then 1337x. That way I don’t have to worry about checking what’s available.
Netflix was convenient but when they hiked their price for the first time, I did what many said they were going to do. Also, the only subscription I have is for my VPN ($3/month).
That's what they think but in reality, many will just not subscribe. Will they actually lose subscribers? Maybe / maybe not. I get HBOMax "free" through my AT&T Wireless plan, which is the only reason I have it.
Life isn't quite this black and white.
Also, I'd encourage a slightly more friendly tone if you're actually looking for dialogue here.
This is only happening because people didn’t cancel Netflix. We could have avoided all this.
Suggestion. Life used to be a little bit different.
Here's some perspective: if I had a print subscription to the Wall Street Journal, I could give the hard copy newspaper to my father, my friend, or the random guy on the street when I was done reading it– every day if I chose to.
Now you're telling me that to share my digital subscription login (for WSJ or a streaming service) with my friend, my relative is stealing?
It may be written in the EULA fine print to qualifiy as such but no jury is likely to send you to jail for that.
It's a new phenomonen that in the digital age companies have been able to severely clamp down on the sharing of media and information in those forms.
Where’s your proof of greed or are you just making an assumption? Last I looked streaming services are barely even profitable as a whole.
Are they gonna bring back 4K steaming for their cable subscribers as well or do they still want us to pay double with their highest tiered plan just to get 4K again? HBO seems to be asking for more and more money for stuff that was included before, while providing less and less reliable service. Smells like greed.
Up to X screens at a time is what you are paying for. But you can’t share that as a single person.
Then there is hulu that only allows 2 screens at a time in a household and you can’t add more. Disney+ allows for 4 screens. Not sure what will happen with the elimination of Hulu but if they try to make only 2 screens available that will be problematic.
One of the reason people stole cable or premium channels in the old days was because the companies made you rent a box to watch all scrambled channels, meaning a single person would need to have 3 boxes to watch HBO in 3 different rooms in your own house.
We are returning to those dark days, where I predict all services will be “1 screen at a time” with more expensive, but still limited “family” plans and additional “add-a-screen” prices.
My elderly Mom and I share a plan (separate houses). For the two of us it's almost worth the price. If we can't share one at that price, I will definitely cancel it.
The fact that anyone defends these corporations' blatantly shady practices when they don't give a crap about them absolutely blows my mind. Calling it "stealing" to share your subscription for which multiple simultaneous streams are included for your money when a large portion of people would only ever use 1-2 at most is completely disingenuous. I don't know when it became a crime to get the most for your money, especially when they don't give any other options that would suit those use cases. It's all about money, which I understand them being businesses and all, but they are arbitrarily adding these restrictions and continuing to raise prices. Those extra subscriptions will in no way flatten that graph or create better service/content. It emboldens them to continue the rise because they know people are willing to pay those prices. The people are not to blame for whatever financial situations these corporations find themselves in, the executives are. They all wanted a slice of the streaming pie and were willing to lose so much money on the front end to get people hooked. That's why many like myself have gone back to the high seas. We're tired of it. They should have never done that to themselves if they knew it wasn't sustainable long-term. If we start to lose some of these companies or content, that's on them, not us.
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