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Max Password Sharing Crackdown Is Coming (www.thewrap.com)

submitted 6 months ago by GreenEngineering3475 to c/technology

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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.

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[–] FrankTheHealer 8 points 6 months ago (3 children)

I did the same for a while but then I was on Holliday in Italy and it was painful trying to get the internet fast enough to stream my media over tailscale.

So now instead, I just keep everything on a laptop running Kodi and if I'm going somewhere, the laptop goes too. No worrying about internet connectivity or bandwidth. Just content ready to go.

I get that this doesn't work for everyone's use case. But I thought I'd share anyway.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 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 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 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.