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

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Post by andromeduck »

lcnPylGDnU4H9OF wrote: post #19
neither_color wrote: post #14

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

Probably just cooking sniffing and some sort of grace period if you're not on the same network for a while.

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Post by Marsymars »

This is relatively easy to handle for e.g. family sharing for Apple - everyone uses the same billing method, so it's naturally limited to people where you feel comfortable covering the cost of all their Apple digital purchases.

Netflix has no such "real-world" limit to apply that naturally covers students and other dependants, so they seem stuck with various contrived options.

I feel like # of simultaneous streams really ought to have been the natural limiter. If you're allowed two streams, it doesn't make a difference in the real world whether the two streams are to the same physical house or not.

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Post by mvdtnz »

harshalizee wrote: post #17

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'm sure Netflix will deeply miss your brother and your mother, neither of whom have ever paid for Netflix.

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Post by mikeortman »

wilg wrote: post #20
harshalizee wrote: post #17

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.

That’s probably a fair statement, but I highly doubt there is a substantial audience of families that want to watch four separate shows at the same time in the same house for them to justify the research and marketing to implement.

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Post by autoexec »

mvdtnz wrote: post #23
harshalizee wrote: post #17

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'm sure Netflix will deeply miss your brother and your mother, neither of whom have ever paid for Netflix.

I bet they missed the 1 million subscribers who canceled netflix in Spain when they pulled this shit. Maybe some people in his family weren't paying for the bill out of their own account, but the service could easily be worth the price for the value all three members of a family get out of it, but not at all worth it for just one.

Even when a family member, friend, or a romantic partner watches a netflix show on an account that they didn't personally pay for, they're still watching netflix, still talking about good shows they saw on netflix with others, still posting about things they saw on netflix online, and still providing netflix with valuable data and metrics and netflix is still making money.

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Post by mvdtnz »

autoexec wrote: post #25
mvdtnz wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm sure Netflix will deeply miss your brother and your mother, neither of whom have ever paid for Netflix.

I bet they missed the 1 million subscribers who canceled netflix in Spain when they pulled this shit. Maybe some people in his family weren't paying for the bill out of their own account, but the service could easily be worth the price for the value all three members of a family get out of it, but not at all worth it for just one. Even when a family member, friend, or a romantic partner watches a netflix show on an a…

Netflix can't be that concerned about it if they are continuing to roll out this change into their biggest markets after having tested it in Australia, New Zealand, Spain, Portugal etc.

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

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Post by m4jor »

remote_phone wrote: post #4

As soon as I get this email I’m going to cancel Netflix and start pirating anything I want to watch, which frankly isn’t very much on Netflix anymore.

Just throw Plex onto a spare computer, NAS, or something like an rPi4.

I have 600 movies on my Plex setup and 10ish TV shows w multiple seasons.

I aint ever paying for Netflix/HBO/Apple TV/etc.

Come to the dark side

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Post by fakedang »

neither_color wrote: post #14

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's anotharrrr tip matey!

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

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Post by fakedang »

We are invested in a company that does TV productions for regional markets, the content often being sold to the major streaming partners of that market. One of our partner's produced shows was a top 10 global Netflix production. Yet even they contend that Netflix's acceptance process is by far the most whimsical of them all. And with the recent shift to Americanization and wokification of content, it seems they are losing ground to Amazon Prime in regional markets. With these kinds of faux pas, I wonder if Amazon won't eat their lunch (and their daily bread) very soon.

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

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Post by takeda »

mvdtnz wrote: post #23
harshalizee wrote: post #17

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'm sure Netflix will deeply miss your brother and your mother, neither of whom have ever paid for Netflix.

I think it was relatively clear that OP is considering cancelling the entire account.
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