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I guess similar reason Restaurants' customers are referred to as guests.
Huh, not really? A “fan” is an enthusiast or admirer. It implies a certain type of relationship to the thing you are a fan of . I don’t know that “guest” implies anything similar, it’s just a visitor.
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Doesn’t Disney own Hulu? They shouldn’t be new to the streaming video world.
But just as a controlling shareholder. I don't think they have any input or say on Hulu's operation besides the typical influence you can exert as a board member even when it's from a vote controlling position. I may be wrong but I doubt they can use Hulu's streaming technology or IP in general unless they license it from Hulu somehow. If Hulu was an actual Disney subsidiary it would be different. Although Hulu is co…
[1]: https://variety.com/2019/digital/news/disney-full-control-hu...
I am sure Netflix and amazon prime users also reuse their passwords, but I haven’t yet heard about users having the Disney+ issues with these accounts.
No idea about Netflix, but for Amazon I bet there’s less account sharing than the other two - because it’s your actual Amazon account. My Netflix account is the only one that doesn’t have a very complex password manager password, because I share it with family. I won’t share my amazon account because I won’t give it that sort of password. I guess Disney+ is much closer to Netflix on that scale.
So a three or four word passphrase should be sufficient, and is much easier to memorize + tell to someone.
It especially helps with the dreaded "what's the wifi password?"
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You issued a charge back with your credit card company for that, right?
You'll probably never be allowed to sign up for D+ again. I'd only use charge backs as a final resort if I can't contact the company and/or I never want to do business with them in my life.
It would really make me laugh if Disney was at fault but it sounds like people with compromised credentials reusing those same creds.
yikes. It doesn't support the security feature of logging everyone out of the account? So if a someone gets access to your account they're in for good.
Well. There’s a reason why Netflix is successful. They spent a lot of money and time operating as a tech-heavy company before becoming a content-heavy company. Just as an example, their Open Connect appliances ( https://openconnect.netflix.com/en/ ) are an impressive piece of technology that probably needed years of research. Launching a streaming service sounds simple in the paper but there are hundreds of complexit…
Doesn’t Disney own Hulu? They shouldn’t be new to the streaming video world.
Disney also owns ESPN and their streaming platform.
So between Hulu, ESPN, and Bamtech they definitely aren't new.
They can still torrent the content, which is what I'm doing after I paid for the first month of Disney+ and then found out their DRM disallowed Linux because of "security levels".
Netflix also offers a subpar service on Linux for the same reason, the video resolution is limited to 720p, even with a Premium plan. The video quality can be tested on Netflix by searching for "test patterns" on the service. The stream quality of HBO GO is consistently bad on Linux, with washed out colors. I have no experience with Amazon Prime Video, but I've found several threads from 2019 with people complaining…
Laughing at some of this reporting. > More than 4,000 customer accounts appeared in the search To clear this up: No, not true. The software in the screenshot called Open Bullet and it's basically a request builder for Selenium (ok it's more than that but you get the idea). You add in lists of usernames/passwords (from database dumps) and it runs your script. You have success/fail reporting, and that's where you get "…
Its all opportunistic as Disney+ is hot on the news right now. Wait till they find out that these tools are cracking Hulu, Reddit etc etc, probably also the BBCs own site. And I guarantee the net is more than 4000 for them.
Laughing at some of this reporting. > More than 4,000 customer accounts appeared in the search To clear this up: No, not true. The software in the screenshot called Open Bullet and it's basically a request builder for Selenium (ok it's more than that but you get the idea). You add in lists of usernames/passwords (from database dumps) and it runs your script. You have success/fail reporting, and that's where you get "…