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Post by jrochkind1 »

mc32 wrote: post #114
gary_0 wrote: post #98

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"Piracy is almost always a service problem and not a pricing problem." - Gabe Newell, 10+ years ago Once upon a time, Netflix itself was considered the case in point! Then video streaming splintered into a dozen services and now Netflix has decided to make things even more complicated. People don't learn, I guess.

I think that's a bit unfair. Businesses go through business cycles. I never worked there, nor have insight (obviously) but you know the business climate changes, your competitors change and you have to adjust or experience consequences. Sometimes you need to grow subscriptions, sometimes you need to grow revenue, sometimes you have more flexibility, and sometimes less (Netflix has to re-enter agreements with content…

Sure, here's a typical business cycle these days:

> First, they are good to their users; then they abuse their users to make things better for their business customers; finally, they abuse those business customers to claw back all the value for themselves. Then, they die.

"Tiktok's enshittification", by Cory Doctorow

https://pluralistic.net/2023/01/21/potemkin-ai/#hey-guys

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Post by BFLpL0QNek »

taeric wrote: post #25

I'm not sure I care that they are trying to get people to stop sharing accounts. At large, that feels fine and I'm always curious the lengths people will go through to not pay a small subscription fee. Especially for things they actively use the heck out of. (Notably, I seem to only know of people that do this where both sides of the share watch a ton of television.) I am not at all looking forward to it again thinki…

Yes. Not to bothered about the account sharing but it’s looking like it may add a bunch of friction to use Netflix away from your primary residence/device.

If the friction becomes to much, Netflix looses its value and illegal downloads look more appealing again.

When current budgets are tight I can’t see how Netflix wins with this as likely will push away users as it’s a non essential service with declining content quality as they’ve gone for quantity not quality now and Netflix isn’t the only streaming provider in town now.

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Post by dartharva »

xhkkffbf wrote: post #178
gary_0 wrote: post #98

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"Piracy is almost always a service problem and not a pricing problem." - Gabe Newell, 10+ years ago Once upon a time, Netflix itself was considered the case in point! Then video streaming splintered into a dozen services and now Netflix has decided to make things even more complicated. People don't learn, I guess.

The anti-artists love to suggest that this is true, but all payment includes some kind of speed bump. Are shoplifters not thieves, but merely protesters against the drag of waiting for a checkout lane? Are rapists just men who are experiencing a "service problem" from women? Pretty much every crime can be rationalized with this pro-privacy cant. If you want artists in this world, you must support them. If you don't,…

I have subscribed to eight different streaming services for movies, music, audiobooks and books, and I have a large game library in Steam and Epic. I still prefer to use pirated copies of the same things that I can access legitimately through these subscriptions; they just provide a vastly superior experience.

Games are much better in pirate releases where you are not riddled with bullshit launchers and online "services". Music, Audiobooks and Movie rips shared on the high seas are of much superior quality and high-efficiency encodings than those provided by Netflix and Spotify. And don't even get me started on Book DRMs. Not to mention the things you paid for can be taken away without consequence at any time in these services. So keep your "anti-artist" rhetoric to yourself, most of those scared of piracy are often just scared of losing out on their cheap income in fears that more people will realise the actual quality of the "art" before buying than they would have.

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Post by panda88888 »

smugma wrote: post #149

If I were Netflix, I’d first block simultaneous streaming in multiple locations. So many comments below talk about giving parents/siblings access and they barely use it (I fall in this camp). If that’s true, you’ll almost never notice the restrictions. But if it’s Friday night and your mom is watching Emily in Paris and you want to watch Seinfeld, you’ll decide to either watch something else, pay up for another accou…

Netflix already limit number of simultaneous streams. Higher tier allows more simultaneous streams.

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Post by [deleted] »

arepublicadoceu wrote: post #196
tptacek wrote: post #173

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Since at least 2019, Netflix has been saying they were going to crack down on password sharing. People who truly believed Netflix was offering them a four household plan for $20/mo have had over 3 years to cancel. Personally, I don't think anybody reasonably believed that was what the plan meant, but either way. Of course the new enforcement is worse for everybody who was exploiting it this way. Any enforcement would…

> Personally, I don't think anybody reasonably believed that was what the plan meant, but either way. Hey, it's me. A person that reasonably believed that 4 simultaneous screens meant 4 simultaneous screens. Not 4 simultaneous screens on the same household. I guess, Ask me anything?

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Post by remram »

I don't know why we are treating this article as news. Everyone in the comments seems to be wondering about how much they will enforce it in the coming days.

The truth is that the article has been up since at least March last year (http://web.archive.org/web/20220321152735/https://help.netfl...)

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Post by harshalizee »

torstenvl wrote: post #115
taeric wrote: post #111

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I just find this hard to really come to terms with. Why is access for others a consideration to what it is worth to you? And do you have any logic that would allow you to share with family, but would not allow friends to share? For that matter, why can't I just pay one login for my entire neighborhood? (And before you think that is obviously wrong, realize that some buildings do just that sort of agreement for cable…

If Netflix had advertised itself with "neighborliness is sharing a password" and encouraged people to sign up for 30-screens-at-a-time plans, you might have a point. But they didn't.

Actually they did. https://twitter.com/netflix/status/840276073040371712

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Post by fomine3 »

tptacek wrote: post #79
athorax wrote: post #60

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How does that work for Hotels or if you regularly travel between two locations?

For Netflix, you get a travel pass. But, more importantly: the allow condition is probably disjunctive: trusted device OR trusted location. If you're just watching on your laptop or iPad, you're probably fine no matter where you are.

a nerd: I always bring NUC and streaming stick to hotel!

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Post by [deleted] »

harshalizee wrote: post #218
torstenvl wrote: post #115

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If Netflix had advertised itself with "neighborliness is sharing a password" and encouraged people to sign up for 30-screens-at-a-time plans, you might have a point. But they didn't.

Actually they did. https://twitter.com/netflix/status/840276073040371712

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