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Daily Crunch: After buying Twitter, will Musk bite back at Apple’s in-app purchase fees?
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Netflix will begin charging ‘extra user’ fees early next year
We all knew it was coming. The next phase of Netflix’s months-long crackdown on password sharing — which itself follows the company’s first quarterly subscriber loss in a decade — is soon upon us. The company announced during its quarterly earnings call on Tuesday that it will charge customers an added monthly fee to people who share their login credentials beginning in early 2023.
This move is an expansion of a pilot program currently running in Latin America which charges extra fees for “extra user” subaccounts, users outside of your immediate household who use your login to access the service. Basically, every listing on the “Who’s Watching?” screen is going to cost you extra money if they don’t also live with you.
Netflix has not yet announced pricing for the punitive charges though if they follow the pilot program’s “one quarter of the basic rate” scheme, it should work out to around US$3-4. For folks wanting to avoid those fees, Netflix unveiled on Monday an account migration tool that will transfer a user’s subaccount data (viewing history, recommendations and the like) to their new, independent subscription.
In addition, the company recently announced a less expensive, ad-supported tier that will cost $7 a month when it launches on November 3rd. The new tier will be available in a dozen countries, including the UK, Canada, and Mexico, by November 10th.
Here’s how I’d invest in a Stocks and Shares ISA now to help pay school fees in future
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Trump-backed Truth Social allegedly owes $1.6m in unpaid hosting fees
Former president Donald Trump’s conservative social media safe haven, Truth Social, is being accused by a vendor of nonpayment of upwards of $1 million in hosting fees, according to a report from Fox Business on Thursday.
The allegations come from RightForge, an internet infrastructure company, and one of Truth Social’s biggest vendors and creditors. If true, Fox Business reports, it would suggest that the social media platform’s finances “are in significant disarray.”
RightForge entered into an agreement to host Truth Social on its servers in October 2021 when the platform was created. The social media app was founded after Trump was banned from Twitter following the Jan. 6 riot and is meant to encourage “an open, free, and honest global conversation without discriminating on the basis of political ideology,” according to its website. According to RightForge’s website, the company provides “hosting for those who believe in Freedom of Expression and need Big Tech Independence.”
Despite the apparent match made in heaven, anonymous sources at RightForge told Fox Business that Truth Social has “reneged on its contractually obligated monthly payments,” and owes the web-hosting service around $1.6 million. The anonymous sources also told Fox Business that Truth Social stopped making payments back in March and that RightForge is planning legal action to recoup the money.
While Trump is listed as a founder of Truth Social, according to the holding company that owns the platform Trump Media and Technology Group, the former president’s monetary and day-to-day investment is “negligible to nonexistent.” Trump Media’s current CEO is former Republican California Rep. Devin Nunes, and he has yet to comment on the allegations, according to Fox Business. RightForge CEO Martin Avila also declined Fox Business’ request for comment but didn’t deny the accusations either.
On top of potential legal action, the report also states that Truth Social isn’t making money either. Fox Business reported that in a May regulatory filing about Truth Social’s potential merger with media company Digital World, it was claimed that Truth Social isn’t bringing in any revenue, and may not until 2023.
The news of Trump and associates not paying their bills probably isn’t a surprise to those who are familiar with his business operations — especially Trump’s overt bragging about not paying bills. Back in 2016, USAToday listed 3,500 legal cases in which business owners and workers claimed Trump had failed to pay their invoices. This included employees at his casinos, real estate brokers, even the lawyers he had to represent him in those suits, ironically enough.
Voice Actor Vic Mignogna Loses Appeal Case, May Have to Pay More Legal Fees
In 2019, Vic Mignogna, a voice actor whose credits include Dragon Ball Z, RWBY, and Fullmetal Alchemist, was accused of sexual harassment by multiple parties said to stretch back multiple years.