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- Last year, Max announced its intention to start enforcing its rules against sharing account information.
- After a few months of warnings, the service will now receive subscribers to pay $ 8 a month to share their account.
- You are limited to a simple “extra membership fee” outside your home.
Without failing, Streaming services just get more expensive. And with so many complicated agreements between content creators and distributors who are constantly changing where you can stream what, it can feel like the only way to cover your bases to just subscribe to all of them. With as much as those costs, many of us are tempted to buoy Break the rules and share some of these account information with friends and family – and maybe get a few of them to use, in return. If you have done it with Max, however, we have some bad news for you.
Today, Warner Bros. Discovery that Max Merging with peers such as Netflix and Disney Plus to charge an “extra membership fee” for viewers outside the primary house. You can only add one per account, and the privilege will cost you about $ 8 a month.
Although we already hear you collectively sighing out there, it’s not like we didn’t know this was coming. Besides the general industry’s entire breakdown of password sharing, Warner Bros. Discovery explicitly that it would be serious about shared max accounts At one point in 2025, and after the last months of mild warnings, the second shoe finally falls.
Times are tough over everything for people trying to save a dollar on access to media. Just last month, Plex announced a controversial Plex price price rise To share your own private media library, and doubled the cost of some of the subscription offers effectively. Maybe it’s time to think about putting that OTA antenna up again?