Netflix’s second quarter 2023 results were digested by most industry commentators as a sign of scintillating success for the company’s password sharing clampdown – inspiring others like Disney+ to implement similar measures to protect assets and squeeze profits. Faultline’s suggestions that Netflix’s latest subscriber growth is a honeymoon period, made during last week’s anti-piracy panel session, was disputed by three of four vendor executives. The contrarian view is that Netflix’s latest growth, adding 5.9 million new subscribers in Q2, is a number skewed by automated resubscriptions, where main users have been mistakenly charged for non-household memberships, according to a representative from French content protection business Viaccess-Orca. Whether Netflix will receive blowback from automated resubscriptions next quarter, or not, is moot.…