Martin Ringlein never shared his Netflix password with anyone. So he was shocked to find out that strangers had been using his account to watch movies and TV shows. One of them was the person who bought his Tesla about a year ago, Mr. Ringlein said. Others were guests at an Airbnb in Asheville, N.C., … Read more
When we play songs on Spotify to get us through the day, they can be intimate—and sometimes also publicly visible. Many people have sharing settings enabled on the music-streaming service, making it easy for friends or strangers to find out what they’re listening to, and by extension, what they’re doing or how they’re feeling. A … Read more
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Netflix Inc. is warming up to the idea of offering live sports on its platform—as long as it can do so without breaking the bank, according to people familiar with the discussions. The company recently bid for the streaming rights for the ATP tennis tour for some European countries, including France and the U.K., but … Read more
Taylor Swift’s newest album marked her biggest debut yet, a feat in the streaming era as fans snapped up the music digitally and purchased a record amount of vinyl. “Midnights” sold 1.58 million copies across formats, according to Luminate Data, formerly Nielsen Music, delivering it to the top of the Billboard 200 albums chart with … Read more
Amazon’s Prime Video has a star-studded lineup of originals coming in November, along with a solid slate of older movies. The big new series of the month is the Western drama “The English” (Nov. 11), starring Emily Blunt (“A Quiet Place”) as an aristocratic Englishwoman who teams with a Pawnee scout (Chaske Spencer of “The … Read more
A month before Magnus Carlsen and 19-year-old American grandmaster Hans Moke Niemann found themselves battling each other at the center of a high-profile chess cheating scandal, they were two guys pushing pawns on the beach in Miami. Hanging around for a tournament promotion, they played on a board in the sand, watched by only a … Read more
Inside Netflix Inc.’s NFLX -1.73% movie studio, top executives lobbied Ted Sarandos, the company’s co-chief executive, for much of this year to experiment with releasing more Netflix original movies broadly in theaters. They outlined their case in a memo shared in June on the company network. Some argued that Netflix is leaving hundreds of millions … Read more
Netflix Inc. executives on Tuesday detailed their plans to crack down on users sharing their accounts on the streaming service, which is expected to arrive early next year. In a letter to shareholders in conjunction with their third-quarter earnings report, Netflix NFLX, -1.73% executives said that they would offer those currently using other people’s accounts … Read more