I'm not here to "defend" Iger's compensation but let's be realistic. Even if Disney took Iger's entire annual salary, bonus and stock incentives, and distributed it evenly to all Disney+, Hulu and ESPN+ subscribers (subscriptions), each one would only get around 12 cents total or around 1 cent per month.
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I'm not here to "defend" Iger's compensation but let's be realistic. Even if Disney took Iger's entire annual salary, bonus and stock incentives, and distributed it evenly to all Disney+, Hulu and ESPN+ subscribers (subscriptions), each one would only get around 12 cents total or around 1 cent per month.
Exactly and if something new you want to watch appears after the sub lapses, you find the cancelled sub on an apple device and resub
Unfortunately straw man arguments are now the norm online. It's frustrating to read but alas.
I am the person who responded to him, and here is the message I was responding to:
You'll notice that twice he mentioned companies that don't care about you. So bringing that up isn't a straw man, it's directly related to the discussion.
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My point in saying that is that they don't care about you, so you shouldn't care about them by backing them and accusing people who share accounts of "stealing".
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same. I thought my young kids would watch Disney films/shows but it just isn't for them.
I don't expect them to care about me. That's nothing something I pay them for, and I don't have any delusions that they would care about me in any way. I'm dollar signs to them. And they're content to me. That's the arrangement.
Beyond that, taking something without paying for it is stealing. So a point of technicality, but the person sharing the account isn't stealing so much as they're holding the door open for someone else so they can steal.
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Aside from cable and SiriusXM, Apple TV, discovery plus, max, peacock, Netflix, Apple Music we picked up Hulu. Not interested in Disney or paramount.
I didn't mean you specifically, just people in general.
It's still not stealing, because Netflix allows it, and even said we could do it once. They've changed their policy so now it's debatable, but accusing people of theft when they're doing something the company allowed and encouraged isn't very nice.
7/11 gives out free slurpees once a year. You're not entitled to take a free slurpee every day. Tumblr used to allow porn, now they don't, you don't get to keep posting porn because you used to. Nobody has managed to show me anything so far that supports Netflix allowing, or encouraging password sharing, besides a clearly joke tweet.
I'm not worried about being nice, I'm worried about being accurate. Taking something you haven't paid for, is stealing.
Yes I’m defending a company’s right to fall flat on their faces.
Orion the same household they encouraged sharing.
It was fine to share within your household, never really fine to share with 200 of your closest friends.
We’ll apple does care, just look at the money and Ppe donated during lockdown.
I still get Hulu with my Spotify subscription, I hope that doesn't go away.
Let your voice be heard.
I was a Disney+/Hulu/ESPN bundle buyer. I just canceled 5 minutes ago.
Not +$5/month. Instead -$20/month. Greedy folks will only understand when it hurts their bottom line.
I was a Disney+/Hulu/ESPN bundle buyer. I just canceled 5 minutes ago.
Not +$5/month. Instead -$20/month. Greedy folks will only understand when it hurts their bottom line.
Yes. My bank, hospital, water company, supermarket should be regulated and in check. Netflix should be regulated by supply and demand. Obviously we’re not talking fraud which should always be regulated, but my bank can do more damage to me than Netflix by a long shot.
Stealing involves depriving someone of something. If I'm paying for a Netflix account that allows for 3 simultaneous streams and I decide to let 2 other people (e.g. your kid who's away at college) use the 2 streams that I'm not using but paid for, that's not stealing. The account is not being used any more than what it allows for (3 simultaneous streams). Netflix isn't losing anything that hasn't been paid for.
There is zero difference between (A) 3 simultaneous streams taking play under one roof/address and (B) 3 simultaneous streams occurring under 3 different roofs/addresses except for where the streaming is taking place. 3 streams were paid for and no more than 3 streams are being used at any one time.
As for you thinking their "Love is sharing a password" tweet was a joke, it was not.
Your shared Netflix password is safe, the CEO says
Let's all breathe a sigh of relief: If you share a Netflix password, you're safe to keep using it for now, the CEO said on Monday.
"Password sharing is something you have to learn to live with, because there’s so much legitimate password sharing, like you sharing with your spouse, with your kids .... so there’s no bright line, and we’re doing fine as is."
Netflix is cool with you sharing your account
Don't worry about lending your Netflix password. CEO Reed Hastings says sharing entertainment is a good thing.
www.cnet.com
"We love people sharing Netflix," CEO Reed Hastings said Wednesday at the Consumer Electronics Show here in Las Vegas. "That's a positive thing, not a negative thing."
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Yes but unfortunately the real underlying problem is that it's still too cheap, the studios are not making enough money to sustain these services, and thats before the current strikes. Now you have writers and actors wanting residuals, and the residuals simply don't exist because these streaming services don't have ads, so the whole system doesn't work unless they each raised their prices to like $70-$100 a service, or got rid of the no ad options. Which either of those would piss off consumers way too much, and rightfully so, causing everyone to cancel. And unfortunately many people here just think that pirating is the solution, but the truth is that will make everything worse. Enough money is already not being generated, which means actors and writers (and now possibly VFX houses if they all unionize) will not get paid what they want and the whole thing will collapse.
To put it simply, there's way too much content being made and not enough money being spent for it, the golden days of streaming will come to an end unfortunately. Everyone wants all this content but no one is willing to pay for it, so it doesn't work unfortunately and that really sucks.
That’s all I watch and my kids like Bluey. If I wasn’t getting through Verizon, I wouldn‘t be paying for it.
Netflix gains more new subscribers than expected following password-sharing crackdown
Streaming giant added 5.9 million new subscribers in last three months after clamping down on users sharing accounts
Netflix’s subscribers surge after password-sharing crackdown
Streaming giant says it added nearly 6 million customers after restricting the sharing of accounts between households.
Netflix’s password sharing crackdown pays off
The streaming services’ strategy to shore up its business appears to be working. It added almost 6 million subscribers in the three months to the end of June.
Verizon sure is pushing people to change to the new unlimited plans. Last year they showered perks on the old unlimited plans.
Afraid that ship has sailed. According to a study from the Department of Defense, 80% of Americans between the ages of 17 to 24 are unfit for military service. Reasons people have been deemed unfit are being overweight, drug use, or physical and mental health.
There's a lot of grey here.
1. You are depriving the people who worked on the tv shows/movies of their due if you're sharing your password.
2. Looks like on standard tiers, Netflix allows 2 simultaneous devices. Presumably these are within the same home (family), etc, but I don't know the details here. If Netflix is telling you not to share your password with people outside your home, that's a reasonable request.
Disney+ loses over 10 million subscribers in second quarter
Disney+ loses over 10 million subscribers in second quarter
The Disney+ streaming service fell from 157.8 million subscribers at the end of March to 146.1 million at the end of June, a 7.4% drop.
www.brusselstimes.com