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.

    • yeehaw@lemmy.caEnglish
      6·
      7 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·
      7 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·
      7 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.