Eh, can’t really argue with them on this. It’s common and costs them money.
Yeah, sort of surprised they haven’t cracked down on this much before now. Should be easy to do with IP tracking etc. I was at an AirBnB fairly recently and the previous guest left their account on so I just used theirs rather than log into my own.
I heard they created a new higher tier plan so for something like $5 extra you could give someone else their own sub account, so they could have their own lists and watch at a different location.
The problem is, cracking down on it won’t gain them any additional revenue. The people who are password sharing are already demonstrating they don’t care about following every jot and tittle of the laws. If their free Netflix gets shut down, they’ll just go watch Netflix shows on the pirate sites.
Exactly.
I have a family account so that I can watch this show down in my family room and my kids can watch some other show up in their bedroom at the same time.
All my streaming services do this. Of course, we're all on the same WiFi server.
Netflix has been losing money with people sharing multiple accounts, a dozen+, across multiple WiFi servers.
Think, your kid goes off to college and shares his account/password with multiple friends across multiple WiFi servers, across multiple domiciles.
It's completely understandable that they'd want to limit this.
People who accepted shared Netflix passwords, that others were paying for, are the scum of the earth.
They should have thought of that when they started their streaming service. It wasn't part of the deal when people signed up in the beginning. It's no different than the government telling our military members that if they want to stay in the military, they have to get the Covid jabs. Being required to get newly released, government-pushed shots wasn't part of the deal when they signed up. If Netflix, and the government want to start changing the rules, then they should grandfather them in, letting the people who enlisted before the requirement remain pure bloods, and making it a requirement only for new enlistees. Same thing with Netflix. People who have had Netflix accounts prior to this change, should be allowed to continue with sharing passwords since Netflix had no problem with it all these years. They can make it a requirement for new subscribers. Liberals always like to change the rules so they get what they want. Then, when that rule comes back to bite them in the ass, they claim it's unfair, and want to change it again. They do it all the time.