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Netflix Cracking Down on Password Sharing in Four More Countries, Including Canada
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I don’t really care because the majority will still pay for their account.
Everyone else will jump on the bandwagon because streaming is a money losing business. Ill keep enjoying mine for free thanks to T-MOBILE
Not when you cancel it after one or two seasons!
Once I cut out Cable TV I got used to not watching it and that makes not buying another TV service like Netflix, etc, easy.
My life is better for it and I wonder if people will just not subscribe once the habit is broken.
My life is better for it and I wonder if people will just not subscribe once the habit is broken.
I can think of a cheaper alternative—putting barriers in for your paying customers is not smart when you could just join the Navy… 🏴☠️
Well, I'm not sure it isn't a crime, there are a lot of countries in this world. Are you sure it's not a crime anywhere in the world?
I just don’t understand businesses these days. There’s an economic downturn and layoffs everyday, but they want to raise prices and antagonize customers. Especially on something that’s a need and not a want, no one needs to watch Netflix shows and frustrated users can and will cancel rather than put up with this crap. I wish we could go back to the days when companies would delight customers, serve them and not play games with them or attack them on social media.
They need to separate # of streams from quality already. They shouldn't be charging different for quality anyway. Should be by the number of streams only
So if you’re married with two kids living in your house and you have one netflix account that’s fine if they all use the same account but if you’re single and, say, share your account with a couple siblings who don’t live with you that’s bad? I have an Apple One account. I’m sharing it with my mom and sister. Apple doesn’t care that they don’t live in my house and share my ip address. Netflix should just have a family plan and allow up to x number of people on the plan and then not care where those people are accessing it from.
That's part of the problem. If it didn't take 15 minutes to read them, more people would read them. Most people don't consciously "accept" the T&Cs, they just click the button that makes them go away.
My son at university uses our family Netflix account when away. I'll not be paying extra if Netflix deem that against their T&Cs, in fact I'll just cancel the whole lot. There's more than enough streaming options to not bother with it and it's an extra £15.99 in my pocket every month.
Thank you for saving me 300 NZD annually 
The ? is will they charge the sharer on their payment, so then if they don't pay, they get shutdown without affecting the main user?
Bad investments in shows nobody wants to watch and failing at becoming a gaming platform are expensive, yes.
Producing their own content is not more expensive than it was 6 years ago.
So no, this is 100% greed.
Netflix has finally become a corporate husk, pursuing profit above all else, including undercutting the user experience and cancelling beloved shows left and right. I need to cancel it again. I feel so gross every time I open the app now.
This thread is more entertaining than anything Netflix has released in years.
Why does it have to be immediate family members? Right now I’m sharing my Netflix with my mom and sister (who don’t live with me). If I can no longer share they won’t get their own Netflix account they’ll just stop watching it.
I don't even see it morally wrong as long as the "force" you into top tier because you want 4k. Might as well use the other three streams somewhere.
I'm not affected (unless they decide to be so draconian that my significant other being temporarily in another country makes us evil password-sharers, which wouldn't shock me), but I'm curious whether this is going to be a net gain or a net loss for Netflix.
As far as I know, generally speaking when a company's strategy for increasing revenue is to try to extract more money out of its existing customer base without providing any additional services to them, it doesn't turn out so well, especially when your competition is increasing.
It doesn't matter whether this qualifies as "ripping off customers who are paying for 4 simultaneous streams" or "making freeloading thieves pay their fair share" or anything between. The simplified version is that some percent of their customers were paying for a service with the expectation they could use it a certain way, and now they can't use it that way but the price isn't going down. Some of them will stop using it, some will pay more. And some number of additional users were semi-surreptitiously using the service someone else is paying for and now are being told to pay or stop using it; some will, some will give up.
At the same time, there's also way more competition than there used to be.
I'm curious what the net of the above ends up being.
Seems likely it mostly comes down to whether Netflix is as indispensable a service now as it once was, when there's Disney+ and Paramount+ and HBO-whatever and Hulu and AppleTV as appealing alternatives.
As far as I know, generally speaking when a company's strategy for increasing revenue is to try to extract more money out of its existing customer base without providing any additional services to them, it doesn't turn out so well, especially when your competition is increasing.
It doesn't matter whether this qualifies as "ripping off customers who are paying for 4 simultaneous streams" or "making freeloading thieves pay their fair share" or anything between. The simplified version is that some percent of their customers were paying for a service with the expectation they could use it a certain way, and now they can't use it that way but the price isn't going down. Some of them will stop using it, some will pay more. And some number of additional users were semi-surreptitiously using the service someone else is paying for and now are being told to pay or stop using it; some will, some will give up.
At the same time, there's also way more competition than there used to be.
I'm curious what the net of the above ends up being.
Seems likely it mostly comes down to whether Netflix is as indispensable a service now as it once was, when there's Disney+ and Paramount+ and HBO-whatever and Hulu and AppleTV as appealing alternatives.
I guess its not profitable anymore since there is more and more competition and more and more services you can subscribe to.
YES! And with the vehicle one, and analogy is will NF somehow spy on you and get you for having friends over to watch, since they don't actually live with you?
Which is completely legitimate, and I know if I had been sharing an account (rather than getting one free with my cell plan), that's what I'd do.
But then from Netflix's perspective, as long as you don't cancel your plan, they still come out somewhat ahead, because they now have to serve one third the streams for the same amount of income.
The question from Netflix's perspective is how many people in your situation will say "forget it, I don't watch it that much and/or will switch to another service that lets me share" versus how many of your sister/mom equivalents will decide to pay for their own account.