If you’re not sharing your Netflix password, are you really watching Netflix? Sharing your streaming passwords is as common as binge watching your favorite show. But one of our society’s last bastions of internet freedom could soon come to an end, Big Brother style.
At CES 2019 in Las Vegas earlier this week, video software provider Synamedia unveiled a new AI-based service designed to crack down on password sharing. This means your mom, dad, aunt, second cousin, significant other, roommate and anyone else you’ve let dip into your account will need to be cut off.
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According to a recent press release:
For example, the solution can determine whether users are viewing at their main home and a holiday home, or whether they have shared credentials with friends or grown-up children who live away from home. If the latter, then subscribers are offered a premium shared account service that includes a pre-authorized level of password sharing and a higher number of concurrent users.
“Using AI, behavioral analytics and machine learning, Synamedia Credentials Sharing Insight identifies, monitors and analyzes credentials sharing activity across streaming accounts,” says the press release. “Real-time dashboards highlight unusual sharing activity including alerts and trend analysis.”
Recent research suggests roughly 26 percent of millennials share their streaming passwords with other people, a practice the market research company Parks Associates estimates to be worth around $10 billion by 2021.
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But this new software won’t just be able to track down small time crooks, like your friends and family; it can also be used to detect and shut down large-scale, for-profit credentials sharing accounts.
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Says Synamedia CPO Jean Marc Racine:
Casual credentials sharing is becoming too expensive to ignore. Our new solution gives operators the ability to take action. Many casual users will be happy to pay an additional fee for a premium, shared service with a greater number of concurrent users. It’s a great way to keep honest people honest while benefiting from an incremental revenue stream
Synamedia says its AI has already begun trials.
