Fri. 03/12 - Netflix Is Cracking Down On Password Sharing

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🗓️ 12 March 2021

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Netflix is cracking down on password sharing. Apple sues a former employee for allegedly stealing trade secrets. Masa Son is back, baby! I guess we have to watch ads on our $1500 smart tvs now, and of course, the weekend longreads suggestions. EditorX.com ThoughtWorks Technology Podcast Links: Netflix Begins Test to Crack Down on Password Sharing Outside Your Household (The Streamable) Apple sues former employee for stealing trade secrets, leaking information to the media (9to5Mac) SoftBank-Backed Coupang Prices U.S. IPO Above Target (Bloomberg) I guess I have to watch ads everywhere on my $1,500 LG TV now (The Verge) Weekend Longread Suggestions: Interview: Patrick Collison, co-founder and CEO of Stripe (Noahpinion.substack.com) TWITTER IS REINVENTING ITSELF (The Verge) Excel Never Dies (Not Boring) How Facebook got addicted to spreading misinformation (MIT Technology Review) Bilibili: How a Chinese site dedicated to anime subculture grew up with its Gen Z users to become a mainstream success (South China Morning Post) Sometimes It’s OK to Give Up (Wired) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Tech Mem Right Home for Friday, March 12th, 2021. I'm Brian McCullough today.
0:08.8	Netflix is cracking down on password sharing.
0:12.0	Apple sues a former employee for allegedly stealing trade
0:14.9	secrets. Mazzasan is back baby. I guess we have to watch ads on our $1,500 smart TVs now, and of course, the weekend long read suggestions.
0:25.8	Here's what you miss today in the world of tech.
0:37.5	The free ride is over and seemingly half of America is going to have to awkwardly cut off that boyfriend or a girlfriend they haven't spoken to in
0:42.1	five years because Netflix is apparently
0:45.1	running a test that cracks down on password sharing, prompting users to get
0:50.4	their own account if they don't live with the owner of an account, quoting the
0:56.4	streamable.
0:58.0	In the prompt, customers are told that if you don't live with the owner of this account, you
1:01.6	need your own account to keep watching.
1:03.8	In order to continue, they need to verify the account with an email or text code or create a new
1:08.7	account within a 30-day free trial.
1:11.6	We've heard the test right now is only on TV devices. A
1:14.8	Netflix spokesperson told the streamable quote, this test is designed to help ensure
1:19.3	that people using Netflix accounts are authorized to do so. It isn't clear if users in the test all
1:24.8	need to be on the same IP address to be considered in the same household.
1:28.2	According to Netflix terms, an account can only be shared with members of your
1:32.1	household, quote, the Netflix service and any an account can only be shared with members of your household.
1:32.8	Quote, the Netflix service and any content viewed through our service are for your personal
1:37.4	and non-commercial use only and may not be shared with individuals beyond your household,
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