Disney’s Hotstar India streaming service plans to limit account sharing

Walt Disney’s India streaming service plans to start enforcing a policy of allowing its premium users to log in from only four devices, an effort aimed at limiting password sharing in a key market, two sources with direct knowledge said.

Disney’s plan comes just as streaming rival Netflix in May started telling subscribers in more than 100 countries they will need to pay more to share the service with people outside their household.

In India, a premium account of Disney+ Hotstar streaming service still allows logins on as many as 10 devices, even though its website currently says “number of devices that can be logged in” is four.