Max's paid sharing initiative will launch later this year, with a broader rollout in 2025

Max’s paid sharing initiative will launch later this year, with a broader rollout in 2025. Warner Bros. Discovery’s Max will join competitors Netflix and Disney+ in cracking down on password sharing.

Enshittification continues.

  • Rooki@lemmy.worldEnglish
    721·
    10 months ago

    They dont fight against piracy, they are just milking their loyal customers.

  • notfromhere@lemmy.mlEnglish
    441·
    10 months ago

    Due to all the enshittification of the streaming services, I decided to opt out of it all by selfhosting Jellyfin with all of my media on my NAS. Get to it from anywhere with tailscale.

    • FrankTheHealer@lemmy.worldEnglish
      8·
      10 months ago

      I did the same for a while but then I was on Holliday in Italy and it was painful trying to get the internet fast enough to stream my media over tailscale.

      So now instead, I just keep everything on a laptop running Kodi and if I’m going somewhere, the laptop goes too. No worrying about internet connectivity or bandwidth. Just content ready to go.

      I get that this doesn’t work for everyone’s use case. But I thought I’d share anyway.

      • yeehawEnglish
        6·
        10 months ago

        I dunno if jellyfin does it but I just sync shit with Plex to my phone. Works great. I don’t need to stream it. My progress is saved whether I stream or sync.

      • bitwolf@lemmy.oneEnglish
        3·
        10 months ago

        The great thing about self hosted is you can just download your stuff. No “you haven’t been online in 3 days so you can’t watch this video on the plane” nonsense.

      • Evotech@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        10 months ago

        Depends on your HW and line speeds, if you have somewhat slow speeds you need to transcode s lot and that will hot your system quite hard.

    • Living_Dead@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      10 months ago

      That’s my same setup, it’s working great with the addition of sonarr, radar and jellyseerr to easily nab the files I want.

    • Unreliable@lemmy.mlEnglish
      2·
      10 months ago

      Any recommendations on tailscale setup? I’ve wanted to do this but have been weary of opening it up to outside my local network. Currently running it all on proxmox.

  • Transporter Room 3@startrek.websiteEnglish
    35·
    10 months ago

    Ah, another service I don’t share but still hate their bullshit rules so will cancel the first time it wants me to verify passwords. I work about 50 miles from home so every time I go to watch something after a service has done this, the streaming service thinks I’m a different user and wants me to verify login stuff. So yeah. Get canceled, max.

    It will make a fine addition to my collection.

    I’ve been waiting for an excuse to break out the sea shanties playlist

  • _number8_@lemmy.worldEnglish
    27·
    10 months ago

    this shit is so obnoxious. it’s not sTeaLiNg to use a website somewhere else. that’s how the internet works

  • Boingboing@lemmy.worldEnglish
    293·
    10 months ago

    Well Netflix is gone. Still using Disney plus cause I swapped my HBO max password for it. I guess soon I will have no streaming services on my tv at all seeing as both Disney plus and HBO are cracking down on password sharing. Shame. They had a good thing going before they all got too greedy.

    Back to the high seas. It was nice while it lasted. But Gaben is right. And I havent pirated a game since he got the formula right. Netflix had it. But everyone got too greedy, created their own services splitting the products over multiple services.

    It’s like Alan Wake 2. Sure I wanna play it. But until the Epic exclusive deal is over and it hits Steam, I aint gonna be playing it.

    • loveluvieah@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5·
      10 months ago

      HBO is the last streaming platform I have, and I will be cutting the cord soon.

      I’ve now switched to having a shitty chromebook hooked up to my TV with an hdmi cable so I can pirate anything I want when I want. I definitely recommend it, no need to deal with ads either on YouTube when not using their shitty TV app!

  • Potatos_are_not_friends@lemmy.worldEnglish
    17·
    10 months ago

    I cancelled when they changed from HBO Max to just Max, and started killing all of my favorite shows.

    They went from one of the only subscriptions I kept to being the fastest I ever unsubscribed.

    • androogee (they/she)@midwest.socialEnglish
      4·
      10 months ago

      & canning existing movies and animated shows for tax write-offs.

      Heinous.

      It sounds melodramatic, but I’ll never forgive them. Pure anti-art.

    • echoplex21@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      10 months ago

      I didn’t care much for the logo change as it’s not really a big deal. What got me to cancel was them adding ANOTHER tier for 4K and then said “no we didn’t have any fee hikes” yet they removed it from the existing plan.

  • Lynn Lablanc@shelter.moe
    181·
    10 months ago

    @GreenEngineering3475 I wonder why the need of this witch-hunt. If I paid a service that allows me a max of n devices, until I keep under the limit I am using what I had paid for. Do I get a crackdown for daring to use my account? Do they wish I pay without using it “too much” ? Terms of service are two ways: I have to comply but they have to provide the service I paid in full for.

    • Artyom@lemm.eeEnglish
      3·
      10 months ago

      Someone at Netflix a year or two ago did an analysis on their customers and determined that most people will pay any price for netflix because they spend all their time at home and watch movies on it regularly, which was probably true. So Netflix decided to act on it, but once one company acts on it, it’s the best time for other streaming services to jump on the train because it’s less likely customers can fight back against one company making one anti-consumer policy. So pretty quickly you get a tidal wave of enshitification.

  • bitwolf@lemmy.oneEnglish
    61·
    10 months ago

    I really just want all these services to have reasonable family plans.

    I’d gladly pay more for a subscription that lets me entire family use their accounts under one subscription.

    Why even bother with multiple accounts if this will not be the case.

  • notannpc@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5·
    10 months ago

    It’s a good thing I cancelled when they took away 4k playback, multi-device playback, and more so they could charge more for the same service.

  • MrSebSin@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    1·
    10 months ago

    No worries Max, our year’s sub is coming up in a month or two and we won’t resub. Planned to cancel anyway with the rate hikes. Congrats on your successful entshittification.

    We’ve gone back to buying media (especially used on eBay) and putting it on our own server. Plus our Google TV also provides a boat load of free streams when we want something else or something random from our server.

    The more the streaming greed grows, the more every single C-suite executive can fuck right off.