comfortablyglum@sh.itjust.works to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year agoDisney’s password-sharing crackdown has begunwww.theverge.comexternal-linkmessage-square100fedilinkarrow-up1587arrow-down110file-text
arrow-up1577arrow-down1external-linkDisney’s password-sharing crackdown has begunwww.theverge.comcomfortablyglum@sh.itjust.works to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year agomessage-square100fedilinkfile-text
It’s now explicitly against Disney Plus’s policies for Canadian subscribers to share passwords outside of their household.
minus-squareuhmbah@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up12·1 year agoHere is how platforms die: first, they are good to their users; then they abuse their users to make things better for their business customers; finally, they abuse those business customers to claw back all the value for themselves. Then, they die. I call this enshittification, and it is a seemingly inevitable consequence arising from the combination of the ease of changing how a platform allocates value, combined with the nature of a “two sided market,” where a platform sits between buyers and sellers, hold each hostage to the other, raking off an ever-larger share of the value that passes between them.[2]
minus-squareArethusa@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·1 year agoI first read the enshittification post during the Reddit blackout. It’s on point.
Here is how platforms die: first, they are good to their users; then they abuse their users to make things better for their business customers; finally, they abuse those business customers to claw back all the value for themselves. Then, they die. I call this enshittification, and it is a seemingly inevitable consequence arising from the combination of the ease of changing how a platform allocates value, combined with the nature of a “two sided market,” where a platform sits between buyers and sellers, hold each hostage to the other, raking off an ever-larger share of the value that passes between them.[2]
I first read the enshittification post during the Reddit blackout. It’s on point.