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"The easiest way to stop piracy is not by putting antipiracy technology to work. It's by giving those people a service that's better than what they're receiving from the pirates." - Gaben
But providing a service people are willing to pay for is so much less lucrative than finding ways to force people to pay for inferior service.
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If you can't share accounts, why can you create a seemingly unlimited amount of profiles?
They aren’t unlimited, there are 5. Profiles are defined as being in the same household. The reasons are easy to understand, if you think about it. Netflix is providing separate queues and ratings for people who have to share, and household sharing is unavoidable in some cases, such as when using shared devices like ipads or game consoles. Or, you could just visit Netflix.com, where they explain the reasons behind pr…
Stealing/theft requires the misappropriation of goods/services that can not be replaced. I.e. once they are gone you do not have them. A real world example of this is stealing a DVD.
Copyright infringement is the unauthorized copying of something. The original good is still around, but someone has made a copy. A real world example of this is copying a dvd that you borrowed from a friend.
Torrenting is copyright infringement as you never had a right to the content (unless you owned the original DVD).
Streaming in my opinion different, you have been given access to a paid stream that is password and drm protected. Netflix is still getting paid. They give you n streams for $/month.
Netflix's TOS says that is against their rules, but they also don't implicitly ban it...
Edit: p.s. I am not a lawyer
This might be the right time to dust off the pirate hats. I share my account with my family and my girlfriend and there is no way they would all subscribe to a new account.
Netflix limits the number of streamers on an account. That should allow for account sharing.
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Going to have to respectfully disagree. There's no accounting for taste, but I haven't made it through a full episode of a Netflix original since House of Cards, barring series they bought and labeled originals. I consider their original content very bottom of the barrel.
What’s better content that also allows account sharing from different locations?
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or people will just create a shared email account, or set up a forwarding rule for the verification emails... I agree with another commenter. This seems targeted at people who are borrowing someone's account without their knowledge or consent.
They're going to use a phone number, watch.
They did the increase subscriber price a few months ago. I think they were shocked by the number of people who cancelled. They can't go in that direction. Funds for content have been spent unwisely. 20-25 million dollar comedy show payouts, cancelling popular shows and under replacing expiring content.
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> In the end, these streaming platforms are probably right that you shouldn't be allowed to share accounts if you don't live under the same roof How many individual users are allowed on an account and whether they need to have any particular relationship (residential or otherwise) are completely arbitrary decisions.
And the alternative is what?
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But this was in response to: > Should my grandma pay $240 per year, to watch two movies I recommend to her (and are ONLY watchable on Netflix)? So that's $10. Or sign up for just a month and then cancel. I know people who have Netflix for a few months, and then another service for a few months and so on. I still remember having to rent movies/TV or buying on DVD as my main way of watching... at 4-6 movies a month and…
It was more directly in response to: > Pay-per-view is probably more appropriate for those who only want to watch a couple movies every month, put ppv isn't available. and > PPV is available for most movies, you can rent them from iTunes or amazon for $3-5 for a single watch in my experience. Yes, PPV is available, but it costs the same to watch a couple movies every month as to subscribe to a whole streaming service…
So, expecting prices to scale that way for limited-quantity purchases is unreasonable.
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They aren’t unlimited, there are 5. Profiles are defined as being in the same household. The reasons are easy to understand, if you think about it. Netflix is providing separate queues and ratings for people who have to share, and household sharing is unavoidable in some cases, such as when using shared devices like ipads or game consoles. Or, you could just visit Netflix.com, where they explain the reasons behind pr…
How is torrenting different from going to the library and borrowing DVD for free? Besides scale and efficiency, in principle, how is tpb different from a library?