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It’s still unclear to me how they count the two weeks on a location. If I go to my summer house every weekend, does that count? Or do they count when you use Netflix at multiple locations at the same time?
Genuine question to commenters that are poopooing this: why? Price hikes are annoying, and the content quality has been decaying recently, but those are separate issues. Why shouldn’t Netflix seek to clamp down on account sharing? This seems to strike a nice balance that makes it easy to continue sharing, and not disrupt existing profiles, etc whilst charging a small premium for the privilege.
If you raise the cost they will just leave, leaving Netflix with a total of $0 instead of a "small premium for the privilege" from them.
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> The endless pursuit of revenue to suit shareholders. I don’t really understand these comments. Do you think Netflix is a charity? “Endless pursuit of revenue” is how they stay in business, employing people and yes, generating profits to shareholders. Imagine turning this same thinking around at other groups I’d imagine you sympathize with like unionizing workers: “In their endless pursuit of revenue, workers have d…
Compromising your products and services for profit is a slippery slope under normal circumstances, but streaming is a rather competitive market. What Netflix is doing is baffling, they are in the middle of a race for dominance. I think Netflix was too late to realize that they need to become an entertainment company like Disney or HBO and not a tech company, because that's Amazon and the world is too small for anothe…
Netflix is somewhat ahead of this slippery slope here, in that when they started producing their own content it was third-rate from the start, very much quantity of quality. They were always going to fall off a cliff once subscriber numbers stopped growing, since eventually existing subscribers will tire of the crap they try to force-feed them, and decide the service isn't worth the price.
It’s still unclear to me how they count the two weeks on a location. If I go to my summer house every weekend, does that count? Or do they count when you use Netflix at multiple locations at the same time?
You know, if you can afford a different house for a season, I suspect you could afford another Netflix account for that house.
It’s still unclear to me how they count the two weeks on a location. If I go to my summer house every weekend, does that count? Or do they count when you use Netflix at multiple locations at the same time?
You know, if you can afford a different house for a season, I suspect you could afford another Netflix account for that house.
They're not gonna come first at the people who use Netflix from two addresses regularly, there's no point to start from there.
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You know, if you can afford a different house for a season, I suspect you could afford another Netflix account for that house.
Arrogant and superfluous comment. If it’s still me and only me watching then netflix should not care.
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You know, if you can afford a different house for a season, I suspect you could afford another Netflix account for that house.
True, but there is a difference between being able to afford something and actually wanting to pay for it.
I think their goal is to remove non-paying customers which is reasonable thing to do from their business perspective. I'm not sure how exactly this would affect 99% of their paying customers. People who travel all the time would probably watch it on their laptops/tablets anyway so it won't affect them.
Genuine question to commenters that are poopooing this: why? Price hikes are annoying, and the content quality has been decaying recently, but those are separate issues. Why shouldn’t Netflix seek to clamp down on account sharing? This seems to strike a nice balance that makes it easy to continue sharing, and not disrupt existing profiles, etc whilst charging a small premium for the privilege.
People share their Netflix account because they don't think it's worth the full value and/or they're are financially strained. If you raise the cost they will just leave, leaving Netflix with a total of $0 instead of a "small premium for the privilege" from them.
Also, Netflix might be losing money when people share their account and want to get to a place where the profit per account increases and then go from there.