Netflix just kicked off its big crackdown on illicit password-sharing users this spring — but co-CEO Greg Peters says there’s still a long road ahead of the company on this front. “We’ll ...

Fuelling file-sharing Last year the UK record industry's trade association, BPI, won landmark court cases that resulted in two file-sharers paying thousands of pounds in damages for their online ...

As recently as 2016, Netflix CEO Reed Hastings called the practice a “positive thing” because so many password sharers eventually got their own accounts. To be clear, Hastings wasn’t ...

German prosecutors provisionally seized nearly 50,000 Bitcoin worth about $2.1 billion as part of an investigation into what they see as an illegal file-sharing platform. It’s the largest amount ...

PASSWORD sharers have been given a major boost as Netflix announced a major change to their rules. The streaming giant introduced the measure amid a crackdown on joint accounts. The company ...

Meanwhile, Max will start to make its filters “tighter and tighter” once the streamer determines “how good we are at detecting” password sharers, the WB exec continued. Max hasn’t yet ...

But nothing ever came of it. However, now the time has finally come, as CFO said on a recent earnings call that Max will start sending messaging to password sharers in the months ahead.

The other shoe just dropped for Max password sharers, with the streaming service announcing Tuesday that it’s making good on its promise to charge extra for those who want to share access to ...