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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 autoexec »

bee_rider wrote: post #666
autoexec wrote: post #597

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Stranger things too.

Stranger Things is generally a much better show than Game of Thrones (in my opinion of course, but I’m pretty sure I’m objectively correct). But Game of Thrones seemed to make a much bigger cultural splash. Stranger Things—a season comes out, and then we all binge it, talk about that season, and it it all done in a month or so. Game of Thrones had weekly episode-by-episode articles written about it.

Stretching out the advertising is a huge reason why they want to delay releasing episodes. I value my time and setting my own schedule higher. I think that as long as the shows are good they'll find an audience and sustain cultural relevancy long after the ads have moved on to shoving the next thing in our faces.

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

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Post by SpaghettiCthulu »

ilyt wrote: post #713
jeroen wrote: post #678

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I don’t have a static ip-address. I am curious to see how they will deal with that.

I'd imagine they stick some kind of device fingerprint and only start bothering user if there is too many of new devices that never share same network. Or maybe ping lan for other netflix app. Or remember the MAC address of router or something.

> Or maybe ping lan for other netflix app. Or remember the MAC address of router or something.

Things that an app or website shouldn't even be able to do without clear permissions.

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

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Post by tayo42 »

Corrado wrote: post #220
robertlagrant wrote: post #52

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I guess their calculus is how much does it cost to support 10-20 streaming users. Is it worth getting $18/mo for? I don't know the answer, but that seems to be their approach.

It feels the same as back when the music industry thought that those that pirated music would automatically purchase it if the "free" version was removed. They were wrong then and the streaming services are just as wrong now. I think Netflix (and others) are looking at that 10-20 x $18/month and salivating, not realizing that the money just isn't there. They need to take a page from the Microsoft book and let people…

I'm pretty out of the loop. Is pirating still easy? I thought tbp isn't reliable any more, and finding reliable torrent sites is kind of hard now? Younger people aren't really on the computer anymore. Like your not going to be torrenting off ipads and stuff

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Post by aembleton »

mattstir wrote: post #300
aembleton wrote: post #198

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If you can't tell that it isn't 1080p, does it really matter?

What's the point of paying 65% more per month for the 1080p plan if you're just going to receive 720p anyway? Do you enjoy wasting money?

No, but I wouldn't pay 65% more unless I could actually tell the difference. I could probably tell the difference between 1080p and 720 on my laptop, but I doubt I could tell between 4k and 1080p so I wouldn't pay for that.

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Post by georgiecasey »

rolodato wrote: post #643
bragr wrote: post #609

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Are torrents even the primary methods of piracy now? That's an actual question: I get the impression that a lot of piracy has switched to grey market file hosting and streaming sites, but I don't have the perspective to say if that's accurate.

Stremio with torrent addons is extremely common.

this is the answer, Stremio is the easy-to-use solution that I setup for my parents and forgot about. the comments above with their complicated usenet setups reminds me of the famous hackers news comment when dropbox was released.

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Post by [deleted] »

FourHand451 wrote: post #480
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…

Certainly I would agree that letting go a lot of experience folks would have an effect on the product. However, I think this comment could use some more justification: > But unlike previous generations though (heh), many of them are not even slightly interested in learning from the previous (seasoned) writers, whom they view as inferior for some reason. Claiming that a particular generation is really different from a…

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Post by astura »

parsimo2010 wrote: post #702
oefnak wrote: post #674

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> money for two houses > no money for separate accounts for family members

A Netflix account is supposed to be one per family, it was never supposed to be tied to an individual person. Who in their right mind would assume that a package that allowed four simultaneous streams would be for a single person watching four shows at once? No, it’s clearly supposed to be that one account covers multiple people. GP is fine to complain whether they have enough money for two houses at once. What about…

>A Netflix account is supposed to be one per family, it was never supposed to be tied to an individual person. Who in their right mind would assume that a package that allowed four simultaneous streams would be for a single person watching four shows at once?

Like cable, internet connection, or Costco membership - it's per household not per family.

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Post by tayo42 »

spaceman_2020 wrote: post #429
poisonarena wrote: post #423

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>been getting lost in shows like Narcos A Brazilian man speaking mexican spanish as Pablo Escobar, with mexican actors using mexican slang in a show about the colombian drug trade, completely omitting Pablo regularly raped and afterwards executed 13-15 year old girls and other insane stuff.. this was not a popular show in Colombia Netflix has always been unwatchable crap or woke garbage. Time to unsubscribe and pirat…

Netflix should be a little ashamed that they revived the cult of Pablo Escobar. The amount of memes and “sigma male” videos featuring Escobar is embarrassing. They turned Escobar into a folk hero, not a scumbag criminal.

If you came away from narcos thinking Escobar was a good person, you only saw what you wanted to see in that show. Any amount of rape wouldn't change that. He blew up a plane full of innocent people...

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Post by [deleted] »

aembleton wrote: post #744
mattstir wrote: post #300

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What's the point of paying 65% more per month for the 1080p plan if you're just going to receive 720p anyway? Do you enjoy wasting money?

No, but I wouldn't pay 65% more unless I could actually tell the difference. I could probably tell the difference between 1080p and 720 on my laptop, but I doubt I could tell between 4k and 1080p so I wouldn't pay for that.

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Post by dahwolf »

jerf wrote: post #407
mikeryan wrote: post #313

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When Reed Hasting left and Ted Sarandos took over he had a bit of power shakeup and handed over the content reins to Bela Bajaria - who was brought in to head up international over Cindy Holland who was in charge of US content. Holland had brought in House of Cards, Orange Is the New Black, Stranger Things, The Crown, Ozark and Narcos. Holland seemed to focus more on developing fewer shows of higher quality content w…

"Holland seemed to focus more on developing fewer shows of higher quality content while Bajaria was more focused on "get all the content, throw it all at the wall and see what sticks" (who saw "Squid Games" coming?)." I think the root problem is that no studio anywhere is large enough to put out enough high-quality content to keep the people engaged continuously. Not even Disney. All the studios were looking over at…

Well said, writing makes the difference. Quite a few great movies have an extremely simple setting. Even if we establish that writers can't write anymore, let's turn to books not yet televised?

One phenomenon of shitty writing and dialogue is that increasingly I hate the main character. Smug, cringe, sassy, sarcastic, lecturing. I'm not rooting for them, I hope the bad guys win.

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