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HBO Max Password Sharing Crackdown Will Get “Aggressive” Next Month
Posted on 8/7/25 at 5:40 pm
Posted on 8/7/25 at 5:40 pm
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If you’ve been sharing account access to HBO Max, the good times are soon coming to an end. JB Perrette, head of streaming and gaming at Warner Bros. Discovery said on the company’s second-quarter earnings call that messaging to consumers is about to get more “aggressive.” The media company looking to close the loopholes by the end of 2025, with the impact starting to appear in its financials by 2026. Following in Netflix’s lead, WBD, Disney and other media companies are all ramping up efforts to limit password sharing, anticipating a significant financial payoff from cracking down on once-overlooked practice.
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Posted on 8/7/25 at 5:41 pm to DesScorp
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anticipating a significant financial payoff from cracking down on once-overlooked practice
I can see lower bandwidth coming from this. I don’t see a ton of people who aren’t legally paying for the service suddenly paying for it.
Posted on 8/7/25 at 5:45 pm to DesScorp
drive MOAR people to setting up their own media servers and cancelling this shite altogether.
MOAR!
these idiots never ever learn.
MOAR!
these idiots never ever learn.
Posted on 8/7/25 at 5:59 pm to DesScorp
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Following in Netflix’s lead
Netflix doesn’t make it that hard for someone else to use, my FIL uses ours to watch his wrestling every Monday night. When we go to use it again Netflix will send a text code to make our IP the home account again. I’m kind of torn on the login and password sharing, it is what it is.
Posted on 8/7/25 at 6:24 pm to DesScorp
Netflix used to encourage password sharing...lol.
Very clever long plan.
Very clever long plan.
Posted on 8/7/25 at 6:48 pm to DesScorp
My in-laws only continue paying for it because all the kids and their families use it. They even said they’d keep it for that reason a couple of years back.
They’ll cancel the second the rest of the family can’t access it. This can’t be the only example of this.
They’ll cancel the second the rest of the family can’t access it. This can’t be the only example of this.
Posted on 8/7/25 at 9:11 pm to teke184
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I can see lower bandwidth coming from this. I don’t see a ton of people who aren’t legally paying for the service suddenly paying for it.
I use my adult daughter's, who uses one of my subscriptions.. if that goes away I won't miss it too much, only so many cooking shows and 1000lb sisters I can watch anyway.
Posted on 10/10/25 at 8:31 pm to DesScorp
It appears the day has come when HBO Max has actually cracked down on password sharing.
I went to log into the account my family has been sharing and got a message saying that I am not the home address and to watch, I would have to make my location the home address or say that I'm traveling.
Have read up and if you are logged into traveling for too long or change home base too often, can impact account.
I went to log into the account my family has been sharing and got a message saying that I am not the home address and to watch, I would have to make my location the home address or say that I'm traveling.
Have read up and if you are logged into traveling for too long or change home base too often, can impact account.
This post was edited on 10/10/25 at 10:56 pm
Posted on 10/10/25 at 10:19 pm to CAD703X
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setting up their own media servers
What that is?
Posted on 10/11/25 at 1:07 am to Downeast12
I rarely use Netflix. There’s nothing on there that I want to watch. The only reason I still have it is that my kids use it. HBO Max doesn’t have much to watch either. It is a shell of what HBO use to be.
Posted on 10/11/25 at 10:16 am to John Casey
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Have read up and if you are logged into traveling for too long or change home base too often, can impact account.
I don’t know how HBO will handle that but with Netflix we have been changing home base every week since January so my FIL can watch wrestling and it hasn’t effected anything.
Posted on 10/11/25 at 8:38 pm to CAD703X
quote:Yep! Making that switch was a great decision. Now I can watch whatever I want and KEEP it. I had to invest in a NAS though since those files add up!
drive MOAR people to setting up their own media servers and cancelling this shite altogether.
Posted on 10/12/25 at 2:56 pm to LewDawg
Just keep grabbing cheap 16t Western digital drives
At worst one dies and you have to spend a couple weeks restoring a few movies and TV shows
At worst one dies and you have to spend a couple weeks restoring a few movies and TV shows
Posted on 10/12/25 at 2:58 pm to Havoc
quote:Plex. And make friends with beauchristopher
What that is?
Posted on 10/12/25 at 4:02 pm to DesScorp
IPT
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