Can you share your music streaming service password with others? Yet in its user agreement, the company states “providing your password to any other person or using any other person’s username and password” is not permitted. On its website, Spotify says Premium accounts can be accessed “for you and up to five people who reside at your same address.” Indeed, the fine print on Spotify’s Premium Family plan entitles the primary account holder to have up to five subsidiary accounts.

The thing is, Spotify’s own terms of service are a bit confusing on the topic. They define those families by household members. The middle ground that many of them have arrived upon is password sharing for “family” only. Streaming services have always tried to walk the line between getting as many people as they can to use their services and not necessarily encouraging password sharing. One of the things that makes movie, TV and music streaming so convenient is the ability to use the services on your devices where ever you may be. I pay for the premium service! How does confirming my location confirm who my family members are!? Fix it /NrRXEVRPkS While the company hasn’t confirmed that, it appears the messages are the company’s attempt to crack down on people who are not family members using the same Why do you keep asking me to confirm my GPS location? This is the 5 email in the last 2-3 weeks. In recent days, people on social media have posted about notifications they’ve received from Spotify asking them to disclose their GPS coordinates. We hear it’s quite common for people who subscribe to streaming music services to share passwords with friends and family. Music streaming service Spotify wants to make sure you share your login only with the latter - and only with those who live in the same physical household.

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