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Display MoreIf you share your Netflix password with your friends then you'd better watch out – a dystopian new AI has been designed to crack down on account sharing.
British firm Synamedia uses machine learning to spot shared passwords on streaming services like Netflix and HBO and rat out the offending users.
Each service can choose to deal with rule-breakers as they please, for instance by sending them an email asking them to upgrade to a premium service or even shutting down their account.
If someone has illegally sold their password online to multiple people then they could be turned in to the police.
Synamedia presented the technology at the CES 2019 conference in Las Vegas.
Its AI-powered system works by analysing where users are logged in and quickly flagging shared accounts.
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Though this relates to Netflix I've put it in the Science and tech forum since it deals with AI to detect the simultaneous use of an account from two separate IP's.
Could this be the start of deploying it on other premium subscription services?