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Netflix Cracking Down on Password Sharing in Four More Countries, Including Canada

I7guy said:
Yes, it was a marketing slogan. Shared your password with your household, not with 200 of your closest friends.
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You can't share it with 200 friends if you can only watch 2 or 4 streams at once. As long as you pay for a fixed number of streams, what's it to Netflix if you share them with your wife living in the same house, or with your mother living across the town? Two streams are two streams. It's the same server load.
Sharing with 200 people is a straw man. Nobody does that. If they did, they could barely use the service, if at all.

I7guy said:
It’s a slogan the same way: “what starts in your iPhone stays on your iPhone”. As a point of fact the statement is false and apple has little control over stopping the exchange of information via a cell tower.
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Yeah, but Apple isn't now going against that slogan by actively and intentionally making your iPhone less private. What they can't control is fair game, but at least they stay true to that slogan as far as things they can control are concerned.
Netflix, on the other hand, is overtly breaking their slogan, and bragging about it to boot.
It's not a fair comparison, in my opinion.
 
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thecombatwombat said:
Why does it matter that you're in the same metro in your mind?
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It likely makes it harder to differentiate different households. Unless they start scanning everyone's LAN and fingerprinting it, all they're going to see is a different IP in the same general area on the same ISP. Most people have dynamic public IP addresses that change often. Then there is CGNAT as used by T-Mobile fixed wireless, which makes it even harder to correlate a house to an IP.

And even a different ISP would not be a reliable indicator of a different household as it could be the account owner's office desktop at work.

There are a lot of use cases that Netflix will likely curtail. Let me grab the popcorn...
 
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Vlad Soare said:
You can't share it with 200 friends if you can only watch 2 or 4 streams at once. As long as you pay for a fixed number of streams, what's it to Netflix if you share them with your wife living in the same house, or with your mother living across the town? Two streams are two streams. It's the same server load.
Sharing with 200 people is a straw man. Nobody does that. If they did, they could barely use the service, if at all.
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Not at all. Person 1 can download movie, log off and then call person 2 to do their thing. Person 2 downloads movie and then calls person 3, etc. this may be the real issue behind password sharing.
Vlad Soare said:
Yeah, but Apple isn't now going against that slogan by actively and intentionally making your iPhone less private. What they can't control is fair game, but at least they stay true to that slogan as far as things they can control are concerned.
Netflix, on the other hand, is overtly breaking their slogan, and bragging about it to boot.
It's not a fair comparison, in my opinion.
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In the same way apple can’t control external factors, Netflix would have been out of their minds to suggest share the password with everyone. It doesn’t make sense that slogan had that meaning.
 
brsboarder said:
Just because you won't be arrested doesn't mean it isn't illegal. If their terms of service say that it must be one household (defined as a group of people living in the same location) and you aren't living in the same location, it is illegal. Just because a law isn't enforced doesn't make it illegal.
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Holy crap. It’s shocking people think this way.
 
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Reading these I'm just glad I cancelled my Netflix account long time ago when I got tired of endless price increases while at the same time not offering anything worth watching. And don't get me wrong - I could afford it if I wanted to, but I see no reason to pay for something if it's not worth it. That's one reason why I've kept buying Apple stuff, and also a reason why I don't even consider some of their offerings. $1000 for a **** monitor stand? Yeah, right.

I've never shared my password to anyone outside our household, but I do want to be able to watch what I want regardless of where I am.

We routinely stay more than a month at our summer cottage in the summer, and travel for as long as we feel like it. Our house stays here, and since there's no requirement to sit here if we don't feel like it, we go where we want to. Never had any issues with any other streaming service. Then again, never had issues with Netflix either when we still had it but now there's one more reason not to even consider it again. Good job, netflix.
 
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kyykesko said:
Reading these I'm just glad I cancelled my Netflix account long time ago when I got tired of endless price increases while at the same time not offering anything worth watching. And don't get me wrong - I could afford it if I wanted to, but I see no reason to pay for something if it's not worth it. That's one reason why I've kept buying Apple stuff, and also a reason why I don't even consider some of their offerings. $1000 for a **** monitor stand? Yeah, right.

I've never shared my password to anyone outside our household, but I do want to be able to watch what I want regardless of where I am.

We routinely stay more than a month at our summer cottage in the summer, and travel for as long as we feel like it. Our house stays here, and since there's no requirement to sit here if we don't feel like it, we go where we want to. Never had any issues with any other streaming service. Then again, never had issues with Netflix either when we still had it but now there's one more reason not to even consider it again. Good job, netflix.
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They lost you, but are probably getting two more from me. So I guess it balances out.
 
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