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12-20-2017, 11:12 PM
If you share your streaming password, you should be worried
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On Twitter, they are openly bartered, donated, even celebrated.
“Anyone have a Spectrum user ID & password I can trade for?” one Twitter user wrote (https://twitter.com/finnswolfrd/status/910294649801027584)last month. Another thanked her friend “for giving me his Spectrum username and password to watch the World Series Game 7.” A third tweeted: “Totally figured out my parents Spectrum password and can watch cable now through my Apple TV. I literally love my life.”
blessed to have shawn michael and his family’s xfinity password
— Sydney Irene (@sydneyip) December 3, 2017 (https://twitter.com/sydneyip/status/937385125251252225?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw)
Tom Rutledge has had enough. The chief executive officer of Charter Communications Inc. (https://www.bloomberg.com/quote/CHTR:US), which sells cable TV under the Spectrum name, is leading an industrywide effort to crack down on password sharing. It’s a growing problem that could cost pay-TV companies millions of subscribers—and billions of dollars in revenue—when they can least afford it. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2017/12/20/tv-internet-password-sharing-crackdown/)
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“Anyone have a Spectrum user ID & password I can trade for?” one Twitter user wrote (https://twitter.com/finnswolfrd/status/910294649801027584)last month. Another thanked her friend “for giving me his Spectrum username and password to watch the World Series Game 7.” A third tweeted: “Totally figured out my parents Spectrum password and can watch cable now through my Apple TV. I literally love my life.”
blessed to have shawn michael and his family’s xfinity password
— Sydney Irene (@sydneyip) December 3, 2017 (https://twitter.com/sydneyip/status/937385125251252225?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw)
Tom Rutledge has had enough. The chief executive officer of Charter Communications Inc. (https://www.bloomberg.com/quote/CHTR:US), which sells cable TV under the Spectrum name, is leading an industrywide effort to crack down on password sharing. It’s a growing problem that could cost pay-TV companies millions of subscribers—and billions of dollars in revenue—when they can least afford it. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2017/12/20/tv-internet-password-sharing-crackdown/)
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