Disney Plus password-sharing crackdown is starting soon

It seems Disney is following Netflix’s lead and cracking down on users who share their streaming service passwords with friends and family. Canadian Disney Plus customers report that Disney recently published a revised subscriber contract that contained a section on account sharing. This seems to indicate the company’s intention to stop password sharing.

The email to Canadian Disney Plus subscribers notified them that beginning Nov. 1, they would not be allowed to share their account outside of their “household.” In other words, Disney Plus plans to track the locations your account is signing in from and make sure that all your devices are roughly in the same spot. The agreement also says that certain types of “service tiers” are excepted from this requirement.

While none of this is particularly detailed or helpful at the moment, it does suggest that we’ll see Disney start locking access to users outside a subscription’s primary address, while probably allowing you to add additional users for a little bit of extra money a month. With the addition of its ad-supported tier, it’s also possible that Disney will introduce a new pricing structure that includes the ability to log in at multiple locations, but there’s been no official announcement like that yet.

While this seems to only be rolling out to Canada at the moment, it’s likely to come to the United States, and the rest of the world, in the near future. Netflix also began its rollout of password-sharing deterrents in select markets before making them worldwide policy, so this move isn’t too surprising. Disney Plus users everywhere may soon be affected by this move, thanks to comments made in August by Disney CEO Bob Iger. He said the company was going to take action against password sharing.