HBO Max intends to aggressively crack down on password sharing. The company, which has given users the option to pay an additional $8 per month to share passwords outside the home will begin to make that fee mandatory starting in September. The watch party is over for people who have been freeloading on their subscription to HBO Max.

If you’ve been watching HBO Max through someone else’s password, the current gentle encouragement to change your behavior get serious.

Netflix kickstarted this crackdown trend back in 2023. Other services, like Disney Plus, have followed suit. With all of these massive corporations finding new ways to squeeze every dime out of consumers they possibly can, we find it’s best to bundle as many of these services together as possible.