Somebody has to have a moral backbone about following anti-consumer Terms of Service written by greedy corporations or else society will collapse under the weight of giving my grandma my password.
the thing is, is it still costs money to run that infrastructure. Have you seen how much cloud egress costs are?
and the counter to that is, the TOS specifically state that you're not allowed to share accounts with people that live outside your home.
Strawman.
Let's not pretend your argument has anything to do with convenience. It's purely about stealing to avoid paying.
The more people who freeload, the more pressure it puts on those who pay.
It's funny how a company expecting people not to consume their service for free apparently makes them greedy, but people expecting to consume a service for free is not about them being greedy.
If you try to watch my tv through the window then I am calling the cops on you.
And it's funny seeing people focus their morality on people literally paying for a service and letting their family use it. Netflix isn't getting these people's money. People would have just pirated their content or sought out other content without having access to these services. Imo pirating is worse than somebody lending their paid account out to somebody.
Netflix is a public library now?
Let me pay for 4k and 1 screen at like 5 bucks a month. I'll pay that. I'm not paying 15 for 4 screens when I can't share. That's fuckin bullshit
This isn't how it works, and corporate apologists in this thread are outright lying pretending that it is.
Thanks for proving my point. You just said one of the ways they can make more money is limiting the "sharing" aka stealing. So when they're looking at ways to make more money, that's an option that doesn't harm those who aren't breaking the ToS. As I said, the freeloaders put more pressure on those who pay.
they already cancel everything asap, the next move is to preemptively cancel shows before they even release to drum up interest
If the only fallout from this is that I need to verify (2FA) when we are using Netflix in our secondary property then I can live with that. I just hope that is all that comes from this for me.
They used loans and capital venture investments to put out a service at an unsustainable price to undercut and put out of business thousands of local rental shops, with the dream of becoming a monopoly, and you think it's the freeloaders putting pressure on those who pay?
I think it's obvious physical rental stores would be long dead by now, whether or not Netflix existed.
Yeah that's my issue; Netflix knows DAMN WELL why they tacked the extra screens onto the Premium tier to boost the price, and it wasn't so an entire family could watch 4 shows n 4 different rooms of the same house.
Streaming is the new drug game, the first hit is free. The profit is always on the comeback. Have you smoking grandma's tv just to see Stranger Things
They do have that right, and we'll stop our subscription and that's just normal customer-service business. We also should have the right to complain without being accused of "stealing" by fellow users.
I don't disagree that Netflix knows exactly why they added that tier, but some people do have multiple streams in the same household. I wouldn't say we have 4 concurrent streams that often, but 3 happens frequently enough.
That ended nicely I think. Wouldn't even call it a cancellation.
Maybe not 4 but definitely 3 in my household. 3 bedrooms with 3 different people watching different things. Might not be Netflix sometimes.
Yes, why not? Maybe not Netflix, but my kids and their friends/cousins routinely are all watching something different, even when in the same room. Of course, in this scenario only my kids are using our family account and the others are only using my Internet connection, but it is still common to have that many streams going at once.
