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Disney Plus subscribers in the US will pay a little extra to share their streaming accounts. The Walt Disney Company plans to enforce its new account-sharing policies by implementing a $7 monthly fee for customers on the Disney Plus basic, ad-supported plan and a $10-a-month charge for those with premium subscriptions. The company shared the announcement on its website Wednesday.

Beginning this week, the service will charge an additional fee each month for subscribers in the US, Canada, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Europe and in the Asia-Pacific area who want to share their account with anyone outside of their household. The Extra Member fee is optional, and Disney says only one additional user can be added per account. Paid sharing is not available for customers with a Disney Bundle or for…

The account-sharing crackdown that Netflix announced almost a year ago and started implementing in the spring has yet to scare most account borrowers into paying up. But it probably makes business sense anyway, according to a new survey from MoffettNathanson.

That market-research firm commissioned Publishers Clearing House (yes, the company does things besides run a sweepstakes that sends giant replica checks to people’s front doors) to survey 19,000 Americans in Q3 about their usage of the video-streaming service. The first takeaway: Most Netflix viewers watch by the rules.

A full 77% of respondents say they only use their own account, while 8% sometimes lean on somebody else’s subscription (the report doesn’t get into why), and 14% only watch on other people’s accounts.

In…

The account-sharing crackdown that Netflix announced almost a year ago and started implementing in the spring has yet to scare most account borrowers into paying up. But it probably makes business sense anyway, according to a new survey from MoffettNathanson.

That market-research firm commissioned Publishers Clearing House (yes, the company does things besides run a sweepstakes that sends giant replica checks to people’s front doors) to survey 19,000 Americans in Q3 about their usage of the video-streaming service. The first takeaway: Most Netflix viewers watch by the rules.

A full 77% of respondents say they only use their own account, while 8% sometimes lean on somebody else’s subscription (the report doesn’t get into why), and 14% only watch on other people’s accounts.

In…