Netflix Crackdown

For anyone using their roommate’s ex’s grandma’s Netflix account, I have some bad news for you: Your heyday might be coming to an end soon. This is going to be hard to hear for the 42% of TV watchers who use someone else’s credentials, but Netflix is taking measures to crack down on password sharers across its platform. A small sampling of users are reportedly being asked “is this your account?” with a prompt to verify with an email or text code. Which pretty much means the end is near. Streaming services are apparently losing $9 billion a year to password-sharing, so truth be told, I’m surprised it’s taken them this long to start policing free-loading more aggressively. 

This time last year, the most money Beeple had sold a piece of art for was $100. Yesterday, he sold an NFT for a piece of digital art for $69 million. Auction house Christie’s announced the piece back on February 16, and declared it “the first purely digital work of art ever offered by a major auction house”. For the piece, titled EVERYDAYS: THE FIRST 5000 DAYS, Beeple digitally juxtaposed 5,000 individual pieces of work that he’s created every day for the past, well, 5,000 days. The resulting art showcases Beeple’s journey as an artist, and is pretty cool to look at too, if you ask me.

Two of my favorite Toks from this week are this video in which a steadicam operator takes viewers through a scene, and this video where two friends infiltrate a group of horses in a Trojan Horse-type moment. 

—Darlene Kenney, Marketing Assistant