This is exactly what they are going after. People like you.
I’m sure some of those leeches will sub on their own and Netflix will be happy.
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Netflix Begins Crackdown on Password Sharing in US and UK
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I’m sure some of those leeches will sub on their own and Netflix will be happy.
If I'm going to put my capitalist pig hat on, I'm a consumer of netflix, and I'm "supposed to" extract as much value for my dollar as possible.
Told my son to change the address to where he and his mother and sister live. Although they left I pay. Don’t need it myself. He’s given me access to two of his services so it’s fair.
I set up a new Plex server a few months back in anticipation of this for friends and family with a lot of the stuff they enjoy. I don’t think any of us individually watched enough to justify even the cheapest individual plans.
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My son is leaving to college in another state. He still lives at my house technically. I’m going to set up a VPN back to the house and have him use it to watch a show once every few weeks and see if it keeps the Netflix police at bay.
Nothing is funnier then a bunch of people on an Apple forum who have no problem dropping $1000+ for the newest iPhone in a different color every year whining about not being able to share a $15 subscription plan with their college friends and dear old grandma who just wants to watch Virgin River.
"Love is sharing a password" is not the same thing as "Love is sharing a password with grown-a** adults who refuse to pay for their own service in direct violation of our terms of service that you agreed to"
A good decision or not (who knows; I have no stake in Netflix and don't really care a whole lot since I don't share my password with anyone but my immediate family) it makes some sense. An average 4-stream account, properly used in one household, is almost surely going to be using a lot fewer than 4 streams at any given point (I'd bet there are internal stats on average streams per day or hour per account). The number is likely higher if it's being used outside of a household, so it costs more to provide the service in the latter scenario.
Agree with you there.
My sister and niece use my account. I have a feeling they rarely use it. I rarely use it myself. For how expensive Netflix is, I really should just cancel it.
How else will they afford to keep investing in masterpieces like Queen Cleopatra.
The rules have changed over the years. Many of the use cases they are cracking down on today used to be explicitly permitted in their terms (I'd know, I actually read the terms to confirm I was above board at the time). Even when the terms were later updated to no longer explicitly permit many of those uses, Netflix made a point of indicating they were turning a blind eye towards those uses (e.g. see Netflix's tweet that's circulating in these comments).
This isn't just about them enforcing an existing policy. It's about them having changed the written and unwritten policies over the years. It's fine if they want to do that, but this enforcement is the first time that many long-time users are being confronted with changes to those policies that they may not have noticed, so being upset is a reasonable response.
Another factor is that many users are concerned that their atypical-but-legitimate use cases may be adversely affected by an automated enforcement system, which would prevent them from using a service that they are legitimately entitled to use (e.g. spouse traveling for work). With any system of this scale there tends to be a long-tail of use cases. Any given one may be unusual, but the sum of them can affect a not insignificant portion of the legitimate user base.
Some of us travel for work or live abroad for extended periods so "hav(ing) far better things to do" is either impractical while working or we simply want to relax at home while abroad and catch up on our shows.
And, yes, while many services georestrict, VPNs let me watch services I pay for even when outside of my home countr at various times.
Which is why I think Netflix will eventually morph their prices to allow sharing ta the highest tier but bake the cost into the price.
It was the old drug dealer gambit - give product away, get people hooked, then start charging.
Made sense as a startup competing with B&M video stores.
This is the intrenet. We expect everything to be free and run how we think it should; no need to face reality.
My family members who were impacted each got their own subscriptions. As I said it’s tough to see the forest from the trees through the MR negativity.
I am self employed and have an office. I watch Netflix sometimes on my lunch break in the office? Are Netflix now saying this will cost extra?
Whelp. Sounds like I’ll be missing all the great Netflix shows. Oh well 😩 YouTube is still free and there’s entertainment there.
No vitriol here. Before everyone who used my account were chipping in their share of the fee. Now that Netflix is enforcing the new rule we can’t do that any more and non of us individually can really justify the lower tier plans. It’s simple economics.
Same as “what’s happens on the iPhone, says on the iPhone”. It’s a slogan not a statement of absolute truth. As was netflixes’ tweet. It’s a slogan to encourage password sharing “within the household “, not with 500 of your closest friends and family.
How in the world would Netflix monitor people that have a permanent address at household but live 9 months of year in a college dorm?
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Oh for sure. If a customer no longer feels they are getting the proper value for their money, by all means cancel. I just don't get why Netflix is demonized.
That might be how you interpret it, but most people took it at face value, which they should have. "Love is sharing a password" is not their slogan by the way, and it never has been. It was a statement via tweet. We all know what it meant. They are just flip flopping on it now because it bit them in the a__.
Just remember, corporations are people too and they have feelings! And they desperately need you to defend them. So rise up and be warriors for Netflix, they can’t do it on their own.
As for me, I’m gonna go over here and weep a bit more for the poor corporations that have to endure such hatred from the masses.
And I’m gonna report all you guys cyberbullying Netflix!
As for me, I’m gonna go over here and weep a bit more for the poor corporations that have to endure such hatred from the masses.
And I’m gonna report all you guys cyberbullying Netflix!I'm seriously surprised the Internet is freaking out... no wait, not surprised at all. They should have done this from day 1 and it's always been something you shouldn't have been doing and now they choose to enforce it. Business works because people pay them money. Fascinating I know. So if you share your password with 10 other people, that's potentially at least some of those people who wouldn't pay Netflix and get it for free.
Simple. Not even worth a story.
Simple. Not even worth a story.