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> allow antisocial behavior to go unpunished? I don't know where people get the energy from to do this sort of thing. It must be exhausting.
"Fuck that, I cancel" doesn't take much energy. And it puts money in your pocket.
Looks like as long you can reach the other person within 15 minutes to get the code. It's all fine?
Depending on how often they make you do it. I'm not looking forward to having to jump through hoops to access netflix when I'm not even using all of the screens I'm paying for.
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…
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The additional context needed is how fragmented the content library has become. Netflix has so much less popular content compared to 10 years ago.
Still just complaining about price. It is trivial to search the content you want to watch, and pay for it. A couple extra taps is not sufficient friction to claim that “service” is the problem.
There's mental overhead from having multiple services, as well as the price.
At some point you just decide it's not worth the hassle.
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"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,…
A lot of art was created without financial incentive.
In fact, financial incentive ruins art in a lot of ways.
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I'm not you so I don't know your situation but the thought of having to manually download and share media whenever my mom calls me up sounds miserable. I'd rather just pay for her subscription.
My system is 100% automated. Sonarr + Radarr + Prowlarr + Deluge + SABnzdb FTW. I stuck to using torrents for years but about 6 months ago I switched to Usenet and the $10 p/m for the Usenet provider and $30/year for an indexer is definitely worth the money. Now instead of having hundreds of seedless torrents in my queue, my system downloads even the most obscure media at a speed that completely saturates my connecti…
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My mom doesn't know how sign up for Neflix, so she's been using my account on her phone for a long time. I only keep the subscription because she uses it, I would have cancelled long ago if it was up to me. I doubt I'm the only one that will just cancel if Netflix stops account sharing, and my mom won't sign up if she has to pay a subscription.
Millions will cancel. Their hope is more will join. If it doesn’t work, they will roll back (and apologize), as they did with Flixter/Quikster/DVDs a decade+ ago.
Is there a place to buy non-pirated films/TV for download yet? For replacing netflix with a dlna server.
My Mom lives on the West Coast while we live on the East. She's almost 70 and on a fixed income, so I pay for Netflix access for all of us and I'm happy to do so. However, if they block her access I can't see any reason to keep my 4k plan. I can get anything we want on a Plex server and give her whatever she wants to watch that way. I was already on the fence with the lack of content on Netflix, but this may just be…
If they force me to either pay for an entire family without being able to share it with my mom or to stream the content in subpar quality I will probably just go elsewhere.