Disney+ Will Start Cracking Down on Password-Sharing Next Month, Reserves Right to Terminate Violators’ Accounts

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Todd Spangler NY Digital Editor If you’re piggybacking on someone else’s Disney+ account, you may soon have to pay up to access the streamer.

The Mouse House has notified Disney+ subscribers in Canada that as of Nov. 1, “Unless otherwise permitted by your service tier, you may not share your subscription outside of your household.” The notification also informs customers that if the company has determined that a Disney+ subscriber has violated those terms, “we may limit or terminate access to the service and/or take any other steps as permitted by this agreement.” The language suggests that Disney+ will be offering a new option (or options) for account-sharing outside a primary user’s household.

The notification to Canadian subscribers is part of the company’s updates to Disney+ subscriber agreements to clarify rules relating to the sharing of accounts, with the U.S.

coming later this year. Disney CEO Bob Iger had announced this summer that the company was embarking on a strategy to monetize streaming account freeloaders. “We are actively exploring ways to address account sharing and the best options for paying subscribers to share their accounts with friends and family,” Iger said on Disney’s quarterly earnings call Aug.