The watch party is over for people who have been freeloading on their subscription to HBO Max.
That fee has actually been in place for a while, but the restrictions haven’t been strongly enforced. That ends at the end of August, said WBD Streaming Chief JB Perrette.
The company, Perrette said, has been testing for months to determine “who’s a legitimate user who may not be a legitimate user.” With that determined, he said, “we are putting the net in the right place, so to speak.”