Warner Bros. Discovery's Max to begin password-sharing crackdown later this year

[John Elden Ring]

HBO will soon join the likes of Netflix and Disney+ in cracking down on password sharing. According to a new report from Bloomberg, Max is planning to begin rolling out new anti-password sharing features later this year as it looks turn make its streaming business profitable.

The report says that Warner Bros. Discovery plans to fully launch its password sharing crackdown in 2025. The changes will come to Max, the streaming service that combined HBO Max and Discovery+ into a single service last year.

Max will expand into new markets, including France, Latin America and Australia in the next 18 months. It will also take a page from Netflix by cracking down on password sharing. That initiative begins later this year and will roll out across 2025.

 

[Zzero]

I wonder how they plan to do it. I actually used to use D+ (and will again when they finally greenlight more Battlebots.)