You can only share your Hulu subscription with people who live at your primary home address. Sharing with friends, family members at other addresses, or others outside your household is not permitted and may result in your account being restricted or terminated.
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This restriction limits how many people can use a single subscription and grants Hulu broad discretion to analyze account usage and enforce compliance, including by terminating access without prior notice.
This provision means subscribers cannot share their Hulu account with people outside their primary household, and Hulu may monitor account usage and restrict or terminate accounts it determines are being shared improperly. Subscribers who share accounts with family members at other addresses or friends may face account limitations or loss of access.
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"Unless otherwise permitted by your Service Tier, you may not share your subscription outside of your household. "Household" means the collection of devices associated with your primary personal residence that are used by the individuals who reside therein. If you are subscribed to multiple Services, your Household will be determined based on usage across all Services to which you are subscribed. Additional usage rules may apply for certain Service Tiers. We may, in our sole discretion, analyze the use of your account to determine compliance with this Agreement. If we determine, in our sole discretion, that you have violated this Agreement, we may limit or terminate access to the Service and/or take any other steps as permitted by this Agreement.Excerpt from Hulu's Terms of Use (Site Terms)
REGULATORY LANDSCAPE: Account sharing restrictions in streaming services are primarily a contractual matter and are not directly regulated by a specific federal statute.
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This restriction limits how many people can use a single subscription and grants Hulu broad discretion to analyze account usage and enforce compliance, including by terminating access without prior notice.
This provision means subscribers cannot share their Hulu account with people outside their primary household, and Hulu may monitor account usage and restrict or terminate accounts it determines are being shared improperly. Subscribers who share accounts with family members at other addresses or friends may face account limitations or loss of access.
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