How to de authorize a broken computers home share

My sons computer has completely died. We my fam and I were all on a home share me my wife nd 3 children I have boughten my son a new Mac book pro nd can't get his new Mac on the network cuz there is already 5 computers on it. How do I get the broken pc of the net so I can put the new one on. The pc will not turn on so can not de authorize from there. Ugh plz help.

This has nothing to do with home sharing.
The issue is that Apple limits a maximum of 5 computers being authorized on any one Apple id.
At this point, the only way around this is to deauthorize all computers and then re-authorize the ones that really need access to the account.
This article will explain how to deauthorize all computers.

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Windows: How to Authorize or Deauthorize iTunes | PCWorld.
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De-authorizing Computers (contributed by user John Galt)
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