Video services may use artificial intelligence to crack down on password sharing


  • TECH
  • Friday, 04 Jan 2019

A television monitor displays the home screen for the Netflix Inc. original series 'Stranger Things' in an arranged photograph taken in the Brooklyn Borough of New York, U.S., on Thursday, April 12, 2018. Netflix Inc. is scheduled to release earnings on April 16. Photographer: Gabby Jones/Bloomberg

LOS ANGELES: Still using your ex-roommate's cable credentials to watch Game of Thrones? That may soon be getting a lot harder, thanks to new efforts to crack down on password sharing for pay TV and online video services. 

One of these efforts, launched by London-based Synamedia ahead of next week’s Consumer Electronics Show (CES), even uses artificial intelligence to uncover notorious password sharers. 

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