Uh oh. Disney Plus is set to follow in the footsteps of Netflix and crackdown on password sharing as soon as next month.
Tackling password sharing has been lucrative forNetflix. While manysubscribers threatened to cancel their subscriptionsentirely, Netflix reported that they’d seen the opposite effect. With many now paying extra to share their password, Netflix’s income has only grown - and nowDisney Pluswants in on the action. With Netflix, it’s the bill payers IP address which indicates the account’s home address. If you don’t take the device you use to watch Netflix to the primary account holder’s address once every 30 days, you’reclassed as sharing a passwordand now must pay an extra supplementary fee each month in order to keep on sharing.
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It’s now understood that Disney Plus will begin rolling out a similar system, beginning with account holders in Canada next month. In November, Canadian subscribers will no longer be able to share their account with someone who lives outside of their household, but it’s not known if Disney Plus will use the same metrics and measures of enforcement as Netflix.
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This coincides with Canadian subscribers gaining access to a new cheaper ad-supported tier. It remains to be seen how much password sharing will now cost for Disney Plus subscribers. For Netflix, users may pay a supplementary fee to allow them to continue password sharing, adding another household address to the account. In the UK, this costs £4.99 a month. Whether Disney Plus implements a similar system or requires all households to own their own account is yet to be confirmed. Many, naturally, will be hoping for the more cost-effective former.
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