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Netflix’s password sharing crackdown is here – it costs $7.99 per month (USA)

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What happens to students? If you're on your parents' plan but not physically in their "household"?

I suspect students are considered part of the "household" because they are for tax and healthcare purposes. But who is going to sue to establish that?

1. "household" is not a general legal term.

2. Dependent is different from household.

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A tip if you travel often is to set up a wireguard tunnel to a home computer. You just need port forwarding on your router enabled. Works better than any paid VPN service for watching your local netflix and it can't be detected.

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Nope. Sorry, Netflix. I paid for 4 concurrent streams and now you're reneging on your contract. I didn't care much when they constantly bumped the price either. Been a Netflix subscriber since 2012. I don't really watch as much, but my mother occasionally watches a movie or two a month. My brother in college binges a tv show once in a while. I know that neither of them will go out of their way to subscribe to Netflix.

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A tip if you travel often is to set up a wireguard tunnel to a home computer. You just need port forwarding on your router enabled. Works better than any paid VPN service for watching your local netflix and it can't be detected.

Here is another tip: Don’t pay for a service that makes you jump through hoops to access its content.

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A tip if you travel often is to set up a wireguard tunnel to a home computer. You just need port forwarding on your router enabled. Works better than any paid VPN service for watching your local netflix and it can't be detected.

I think this might be moot. "Everyone living in that household can use Netflix wherever they are — at home, on the go, on holiday ..."[0] suggests that they'll use some mechanism other than IP to determine that there is against-terms "password sharing" going on. Probably something like device sessions instead.

[0] https://about.netflix.com/en/news/update-on-sharing-may-us

Re: Netflix’s password sharing crackdown is here – it costs $7.99 per month (USA)

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Nope. Sorry, Netflix. I paid for 4 concurrent streams and now you're reneging on your contract. I didn't care much when they constantly bumped the price either. Been a Netflix subscriber since 2012. I don't really watch as much, but my mother occasionally watches a movie or two a month. My brother in college binges a tv show once in a while. I know that neither of them will go out of their way to subscribe to Netflix…

> I paid for 4 concurrent streams and now you're reneging on your contract.

You almost certainly in fact paid for 4 concurrent streams in the same household, and you were just out of compliance on your contract the whole time.

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