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Cord Cheating: Piracy Spreads From Netflix To Pay TV

A report by Parks Associates says that among the 57% of U.S. households with OTT services (Netflix, Hulu, Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN), HBO Go), 11% use shared-accounts. Parks estimates that OTT video streamers will lose some $500 million of revenue worldwide in 2015 because of password sharing.
 

From the article "Cord Cheating: Piracy Spreads From Netflix To Pay TV" by REINHARDT KRAUSE.

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