It's not hard to think lots of ways to stop a certain amount of this. Limiting the number of simultaneous users should be easy - Netflix obviously does this. But if you then roll in recognised IP addresses or general locations, then you could quickly require a further 2-factor identification-style or even email requirement. Netflix already tells me when I log in from somewhere it's not seen before. It then emails me to let me know. If it also made me click an "It's me" button then that probably wouldn't be a hardship.
Some of this will probably involve tightening Ts&Cs. Should you need to reside at the same address to share a password? That's the rule that Spotify has for its family plan. But students away from home, or kids using their parents' logins are more complicated. And then there are families that are separated through no fault of their own - perhaps work keeps them apart for some of their time. I suspect that the companies will roll all this stuff out slowly. They don't want to annoy customers, but you tighten up a little here, and make people jump through a few more hoops there. Do you get new sign ups as a result? Or lose them? Adam On Mon, Nov 18, 2019 at 6:19 AM 'David Bruggeman' via TVorNotTV < tvornottv@googlegroups.com> wrote: > I suspect two-factor authentication (where the password would be the first > step, followed by a code sent to the actual account holder that has to be > submitted as well) would be a way to address this. It's not foolproof, but > it would make it harder to share access. > > David > > On Sunday, November 17, 2019, 7:17:13 PM EST, Joe Hass < > hassgoc...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > They're going to "crack down" on password sharing, though how they're > going to do this in a way that isn't going to absolutely piss off honest > customers is news to me. > > > https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-11-08/netflix-hbo-and-cable-giants-are-coming-for-password-cheats > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "TVorNotTV" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to tvornottv+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/CABru7%2BfZ_%2Bupqk4q9ThhxBpMwXnqSwu%2BK2-1f0z80zMkgBeUoQ%40mail.gmail.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/CABru7%2BfZ_%2Bupqk4q9ThhxBpMwXnqSwu%2BK2-1f0z80zMkgBeUoQ%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "TVorNotTV" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to tvornottv+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/1652168659.1084224.1574057947480%40mail.yahoo.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/1652168659.1084224.1574057947480%40mail.yahoo.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to tvornottv+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/CAD_sJGB8OCCxn%3D%2B6UUxpQozCJLJM_kTL_ZUK47b33AKQA5N4Wg%40mail.gmail.com.
