I LOVE this so much. Everybody is whining, but nobody puts their money were their mouth is and cancel the service.
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Netflix Password Sharing Crackdown Works, U.S. Subscriber Numbers Soar
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If Netflix wasn't experiencing financial issues to begin with none of this would have been necessary.
If they hadn't mismanaged their money for years, they wouldn't have financial issues in the first place.
My position is that if the content is good enough to watch then its good enough to pay for. For you people threatening to cancel quite being so cheap and pay up.
Most of the people complaining about this are the ones who are mooching off of someone else’s account. I do understand this is crap for people who have kids away at college though.
Mine comes included with my T-Mobile account, so this doesn’t bother me.
Mine comes included with my T-Mobile account, so this doesn’t bother me.
Maybe if people would pay for the service they receive Netflix would not have financial issues. I know I know. It's a victimless crime....lol. Except I am a victim for having to pay more because people are cheap and expect everything for FREE.
They decided to enforce T&Cs tey ignored for years, which is their right. Understandably, some people view that as a loss and reacted negatively, others as we had a good ride but now it's over.
No one is forcing anyone to buy Netflix; if the new policy becomes a drag on revenue they will no doubt rethink it; and the way to make taht happen is enough people cancel; although I doubt that will happen.
They do, and teh solution is to cancel Netflix if they don't find it worth the money.
It's not just Netflix, 720 is considered HD, while 1080 is FHD. Am I making this up?
This is the part people here seem to ignore. If I'm paying for 4 streams (I'm not...I don't have Netflix)...why does it matter WHERE they're being used? 4 streams is 4 streams...
I wonder what will determine whether their kids are considered an entirely different "location", presuming that they come home for all of vaca with their devices...
Maybe things have changed since I was in college, but how many college students come home every 30 days? I know when I was in college, I sure didn't. Being in a college that was 1700 miles from home didn't make that a very feasible commute
I don't think anyone's ignoring it. It matters, because a Netflix account wasn't meant to be shared with 4 friend's households. I guess you might say it was on an honor system before, which showed that instead of paying for content people try to find a friend who will give them their login. I did that too years ago, but then I got tired of my friend asking me if I was watching something, because he'd given his login to too many people and was unable to watch Netflix himself))) So I just signed up for my own account and have been happy ever since. Even more so now, that T-Mobile pays for it
You want free Netflix? Come visit Mom & Dad, *****!
Yes there is a difference. Giving a library book to someone to read is not incurring an additional expense on the part of library. Sharing a password incurs an expense by Netflix.
And the streaming providers get revenue they wouldn’t have had.My stepmother-in-law has an interesting strategy: I would call it
streaming provider hopping
She subscribes to one service for a month or two and then the next for a time and so on. That keeps the content fresher. It feels like you get more for your money.
Apparently this has been a thing for a few years now.
streaming subscription hopping at DuckDuckGo
duckduckgo.com
It’s cracking down on those violating terms of service. Somewhat similar to a store hiring extra security and/or putting more products behind counters to deal with shoplifters. Would you call that a price increase in a different form?
Netflix would rather have less accounts that operate within their tos than more accounts where stealing occurs. This way Netflix can forecast more accurate revenue numbers and count their subscriber base.
Not exactly free. You indirectly pay for Netflix via a higher priced T-Mobile plan.
Maybe but if I take out a book and I have 30 days to return it and I return the book in the same condition I took it out even if 4 other people in my household read the book… no extra expense was borne by the library.
Ah, well they don't mind if the people in your household read it, it's when you give it to your cousin Bobby who lives three states away, that they may get concerned...