Your Disney Plus subscription is changing. This is when the rules against sharing passwords come into effect
We can’t say they didn’t warn us: in September, Disney Plus said it would start cracking down on account sharing in early 2024 – first in Canada and then in the US. We’ve already seen the email subscribers of the same company’s Hulu service about the change in terms, and now Disney Plus is sending US customers an email to inform them of the new rules. The move comes just days after Hulu’s emails.
Similar to Hulu, the emails discuss changes to the terms and conditions that were made on January 25 and will take effect on March 14. That means that from that later date onwards, if you share your Disney Plus account with people who don’t live under the terms, on the same roof, you could face restrictions or even a ban.
We’ve seen this script before
The Disney Plus emails say that “we are adding restrictions on sharing your account outside of your household” and that the streamer “may analyze the use of your account to determine compliance.” It doesn’t detail how exactly it will do that, but even something as simple as logging IP addresses can reveal when different people are accessing the service from different networks and different locations.
That’s a rather blunt instrument, though, and it could signal legitimate access when traveling for work or pleasure. Netflix gets around this by occasionally asking you to connect from your home location, and Disney will likely do the same.
According to the Disney Plus Help Center for the US and also for other territories (the same language is also in the UK version), a household means “the collection of devices associated with your primary personal residence and used by the people who live there.” “.
Unlike Netflix, there is currently no way to add additional people to your account, for example because one of your children is going to college; So far, no plans for such an option have been announced. To be honest, the new rules on the market are not being received with great joy Disney Plus subreddit.