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Netflix loses 1M users in Spain over password policing

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Re: Netflix loses 1M users in Spain over password policing

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Post by homero »

gnicholas wrote: post #450
biztos wrote: post #430

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Apple, Google and Amazon would seem to have a big advantage here in doing Family Accounts. By putting someone "in your family" you at least feel like you're giving them access to a lot of stuff, so you probably don't do it with friends as much. Plus there is some unique tracking by account even if it's just an email address. I never tried it but I would assume I can't be in multiple "families" at the same time on Pri…

Good point — if NFLX wants to cut down on password sharing, maybe they should make it so that anyone with the password can order premium PPV content. That would make people think twice before giving out their passwords!

Yeah Google makes you share access to a credit card so you'll never add randoms

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Post by justinclift »

bmelton wrote: post #502
justinclift wrote: post #440

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One of my friends is a writer, and his take on the problem is that the seasoned writers Netflix used to have (a few years ago) are now all getting fairly "old". Aka around their 50's. So, they were let go, and a new generation of young, unseasoned writers has been doing the writing. But unlike previous generations though (heh), many of them are not even slightly interested in learning from the previous (seasoned) wri…

Barely on-topic, but this is sort of the plot of Reboot, and I remember watching this show seeing the dynamic between the elder writer played by Paul Reiser) and the much younger writer played by Rachel Bloom. The gist of the (relevant) bit of plot is that the younger writer wants to take an old classic series (ala Full House) but do a gritty reboot of it, but the studio brings in the original writers on to help, and…

> I was safe in that ignorance right up until I read your comment.

Oops, sorry. ;)

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Post by stiltzkin »

xadhominemx wrote: post #330
rootusrootus wrote: post #303

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What kind of woke crap? I don't really understand the definition, but that's because it is US identity politics and nobody wants to define it apparently. But maybe from afar you have a particular definition?

It’s when there are shows about women, black, and gay people. I’m not joking - that’s what they are complaining about.

Also content against white people.

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Post by capableweb »

EvanKnowles wrote: post #209
lockhouse wrote: post #202

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Mythic Quest is hilarious as well.

It improved suddenly in the third season, I was about to give up.

I felt the opposite, two first seasons were great, last one not so great. Still a good show though.

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Post by mordae »

lambic wrote: post #520

I cancelled my account last month, mostly because they were incapable of dealing with the fact that my IP address is not near where I live.

Looking forward to that as well. I use a large scale FTTH provider with multiple virtual operators, some of whom (like the one I use) have their gateway elsewhere.

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Post by ModernMech »

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I don't pirate because I just can't be bothered. It's all too much work for a short temporary experience, but I do remember the promises. Streaming was going to "save us" from the big cable companies. No ads, just pay that small subscription fee and watch what you want when you want it. Now there are a dozen subscription fees, I'm getting ads anyway, and I'm not getting content I want to pay money for. Some are even…

Pirating popular shows is actually pretty darn easy, and you get the benefit of watching it with your favorite player wherever you want to, not with the crap player they offer under scenarios they dictate. Want to watch an HBO show offline on a plane or train, no problem. I actually “pirate” some of stuff I pay for.

> the benefit of watching it with your favorite player wherever you want to, not with the crap player they offer under scenarios they dictate

This is the part I don't get. Why do you feel you have this right?

FYIW, HBO Max allows you to download episodes for offline viewing, so it's not exactly true they are dictating the scenarios. I watch HBO all the time on plane rides.

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Post by capableweb »

mitchdoogle wrote: post #496
SirMaster wrote: post #487

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I think Netflix sees 3 people sharing 1 account and thinks that 2 of the 3 would maybe pay for accounts if they block sharing. But in reality they end up losing the 1 account instead because none of the 3 people are willing to pay full price individually. They were all willing to pay 1/3 of the price when sharing.

According to Netflix, there is an initial wave of cancellations, but over the ensuing months, they end up with more paying subscribers than there were before the password-sharing crackdown. They've initialized this crackdown in a few different waves. I can't imagine they would continue to do it if it were detrimental to their bottom line.

> They've initialized this crackdown in a few different waves. I can't imagine they would continue to do it if it were detrimental to their bottom line.

Companies regularly do things that are detrimental to their bottom line because they either misunderstood how their customers use their product, or because they are trying to please shareholders, or a combination of both.

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Post by rrrrrrrrrrrryan »

bmelton wrote: post #506
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>but the combination of all of them doing that turn one fairly decent (not perfect, but decent) streaming service into an array of streaming services each individually not worth the subscription. And thus we're back at "cable rates" but pick your poison. The response should be "cancel services when you don't need them" but it's tougher if you have a family with young kids who you let watch. I really liked paying CBS/…

A friend of mine just does one service at a time, and it's low-key fairly brilliant. There's a bit of headache with installing / uninstalling apps on televisions and having to log into things once a month or quarter or however long it takes him, but the kernel of the idea is that there are generally only a few new, good shows worth watching for any given network, but all the good shows are roughly equally distributed…

This is why all the streaming services are constantly trying to hype up their one "must watch" show. If you aren't watching it now, you're left out of the conversation, and nobody will want to talk about it in three months.
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