A rep for Hulu provided us with the email sent to subscribers and added that they are actively exploring how to address account sharing across our platforms. Hulu has been sending out emails to subscribers this week as well, outlining a new change in their subscriber agreement saying that, “We’re adding limitations on sharing your account outside of your household, and explaining how we may assess your compliance with these limitations.” The agreement change will go into effect on March 14 for current subscribers. The Disney+ stance applies to this Walt Disney–owned streamer as well. The streamer has mass-emailed its subscribers, warning that a March 14 update to the user agreement prohibits using “another person’s username, password, or other account information” and adding that there will be “limitations on sharing your account outside of your household.” It also revealed it will be following Netflix’s lead in prompting users outside the household to be added for an additional fee, but there were no further details. But it looks like money is thicker than blood, as Bob Iger has reiterated this week during the company’s earnings call that “improper” password sharing will be dealt with this year. your friends) and they can be your random ex-boyfriend’s best friend’s roommate. Now, Disney stands for family! And family can be anywhere in the world they can be your chosen family (a.k.a. We are aware that password sharing outside of the household does occur and we discourage that activity.” We reached out again to see if anything has changed and have received no update. A spokesperson for HBO Max (before it became Max) confirmed that fact to us last year, stating, “We anticipate that people living in the same household may share a single account/password, which is permitted in our user agreement. The David Zaslav–run streamer has been careful to include clear language in its FAQ pages specifying account use “for everyone in your household,” though it has never really been enforced outside of that.
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