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.

Warner Bros. Discovery says it will begin to more aggressively going after people share passwords on a recent earnings call. People who insist on adding viewers outside of their household will be asked to pay an additional $7.99 per month.

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

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