Thoughtless analogy. If they can’t provide the number of streams being paid for, they’re in breach of contact
Accounts are by household, they're not limiting your streams, they're limiting access to multiple households.
It's not really stealing. I pay for 4 streams, and my brother is one of the people I feel like I'm paying for. His family is the main one watching. The instant they cut him off, I'll cut my subscription and start bouncing from one service to another. Couple of months of Disney, then HBO Max, and Netflix only occasionally and definitely not at the current tier.
Is your brother in your household? If not, then he's stealing and you're in breach of contract. Netflix grants your household a license to access their services from anywhere on any device and if they think you're not a part of the household, they're obligated to verify this by asking you to verify a pin/code/email. If you verity, then you're all good but if you don't, they cut you off. I can give my credit card to a friend and if a merchant asks to see their ID to verify they're me and they're not, the merchant is obligated to not accept that card as payment. Just because I sub-lease my card to a friend does not entitle them to use it because AMEX granted me as the sole user. Netflix is doing the same thing.
I like how you knew in advance that what you were gonna type was gonna be absurd. Good job likening parents sharing their accounts with their kids in college to criminal acts of thievery.
I didn't say your children in your household were criminals but you are in breach of contract because they're not in your household. If they're still dependents on your taxes and getting mail at your address, then they're in your household, if they're off living in Seattle with a dorm / flat of their own, they're not and you're in breach of contract and Netflix has contractual right to cut them off from your access. They could take it a step further and close your account.
That would be me and pretty much every other student at the time lol. We needed Photoshop in uni but couldn’t afford the true cost, so everybody installed hacked copies lol. I used to also use a CAD software that was £10k a year to run. Our lecturers couldn’t understand how everybody was getting the work done but the computers in uni were barely used lol.
Me too, I pirated software as a kid like 12-14 years old when I was still a minor. We are lucky now that we have non Adobe software that can help us hobbyists still edit photos without paying huge fees. Pixelmator was like $40
Yes, Adobe increased the price of Photoshop because of pirates... it had absolutely nothing to do with increasing profit margin. /s
https://www.computerworld.com/article/2793095/adobe-says-it-s-committed-to-china-despite-piracy.html
I remember back in the day Bill Gates saying something like 9 out of 10 Windows XP installs in China were pirated. It was a massive issue back then.
Unfortunately. Netflix just want the money to increase the stock price. I highly doubt they won’t raise the prices again.
I don't think I said they'd never increase the price, I'm just saying that Netflix has production, operating, licensing and streaming costs. Streaming costs are next to nothing for them but it does cost them money to deliver content to your house. If one person has 12 friends with their passwords and 4 people are always streaming, it's going to cost them more money than me who has one account and uses Netflix maybe 1 hour a week. I'm subsidizing the people who are in breach of contract.
I'm actually kind of amazed on the like versus dislike levels my post had:
I encourage everyone to pirate content anyway. Netflix pulls shows all of the time without warning. If you like something, even if you're paying for Netflix, you should keep any offline copy.
