CELEBRATE WITH PSAR R.E.A.L. WINNERS
The Pacific Southwest Association of Realtors’ (PSAR) Young Professional Network (YPN) group will host an online party celebration starting at 4 p.m., Thursday, March 18 in honor of the more than 300 PSAR realtor members who recently received a Real Estate Achievement and Leadership (R.E.A.L.) award. All PSAR realtors, brokers and office personnel are invited to attend. The R.E.A.L. awards program recognized PSAR’s top producing agents and brokers based on sales volume dollars or units sold, including listings or sales units entered into the MLS and closed in 2020. Names of R.E.A.L. award recipients recently appeared in full-page ads in The San Diego Union-Tribune’s “Hot Property” section. For more event information, call PSAR at (619) 4217811 or visit www.psar.org.
Netflix is testing a way to crack down on password sharing.
The popular streaming service has been asking some users of the popular streaming site to verify their account via email or text, or to “verify later.”
“If you don’t live with the owner of this account, you need your own account to keep watching,” the screen reads, according to Streamable.com, which first reported the test.
The test comes as streaming services proliferate and more people share passwords and services. Netflix confirmed the test, but did not say how many people were part of the test or if it was only in the U.S. or elsewhere.
“This test is designed to help ensure that people using Netflix accounts are authorized to do so,” the company said in a statement.
On the most basic plan, which costs $9 monthly, users can stream on only one screen at a time. The most popular plan, which is now $14 monthly, allows two simultaneous streams; the $18 premium plan allows 3.
But there has never been a limit on sharing an account when you aren’t streaming at the same time.
Competition has definitely heated up in entertainment streaming, with recent entrants running from Disney+ in 2019 to Paramount+ most recently. Still, Netflix remains the one to beat with more than 200 million subscribers globally.