Netflix Examines Another Method for Password Sharing Fees
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fantaskarsef
Oh well, they shall try. I predict they end up with even less income, but lucky enough, it's not my problem.
XenthorX
I like Netflix, hope they figure it out.
Kaarme
You reckon the modus operandi is for a person to get a Netflix subscription and then sell access to other people, thus basically creating a situation of a cooperative to cover the expenses? If Netflix puts a stop to this, the cooperative chairman will simply terminate the single account currently used by many? Is that how Netflix would lose money? I don't see any other way because if it was just a form of charity to share an account, the original owner would still want to keep watching his/her own shows, the others would just go without, unless they made their own subscriptions or the original owner paid the extra.
Ratilt
Maybe Netflix should consider giving access to all the movies which clients pay across the world instead of regions. It really pisses me off when I can't watch what I want because the movies differ from region to region even though they have all the movies necessary.
I'd be glad to choose what I want to watch not what Netflix thinks is best for people to watch in a given region.
Agonist
LOL people in US are ditching netflix like crazy.
Greed is something else.
fry178
@Ratilt
not just gonna be Netflix alone, probably the different country laws/ratings that limit what they can show.
codyrocco
Whaaaat?
[opening TPB and laughing malefically] Whaaaat?
fantaskarsef
In my personal situation I was the giver of charity. đ
Not much on the horizon that I'd be looking out for, constantly rising subscription costs with the money only going into marketing and production of content I do not particularly enjoy (too much of "the message" for my taste tbh), not to mention I personally do not need 4 devices but pay for them, but I do want the 4K content.
In my personal opinion, you are right, that's exactly what I think, other people will start to reconsider this way of paying for Netflix like I do.
It all comes down to the equilibrium between content quality and what you pay. And this is drifting and changing, but imho, in the direction where netflix is losing people because they do not make the contant that would keep them anymore.
tunejunky
yup and not to mention each of the studios has a different distribution contract with different countries.
tunejunky
Netflix has competition now and they're flailing a bit after the body blows of Disney+ & HBOMax
HBOMax is winning the quality game but their variety suffers.
this "plan" is a penalty for the success of the other streamers. in this business it's still weird as the number of views is the reference and the more streams, the more views.
idk... HBO has a history of restricted access with "free" preview periods to juice up the subscriber base (like Game of Thrones & Sopranos midway through story arcs), but now they are a streamer they allow ISP logins as well as personal... and i've "gifted" the ISP login to younger relatives (live tv + HBOMax).
the freestanding HBOMax subscriptions (i.e. HULU, Amazon, ATT, et al) can easily be gifted as well.
this Netflix move seems both bitter and "closing the barn door after the cows got out".
mbk1969
Netflix? What is Netflix?
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schmidtbag
To me, Netflix had a pretty simple solution that they should have done from the beginning:
Have a limit of 10 users per account, but they all have to be within the same IP address. If 2 different users are watching something at the same time with different IPs, one of them has to stop watching. I say "watching" because just simply being logged in shouldn't be an issue. Then, you can pay an extra $1 per month for every additional IP you want to use simultaneously.
Some people could work around this idea by using a VPN but most password-sharers (or the sharees) wouldn't bother.
Too late now though, such a restriction wouldn't hold up well.
reix2x
i ditch Netflix like 4 months ago, this days i'm using HBO and i like it more. i don't see me coming back to netflix any time soon
Dribble
Netflix's primary problem is it's content, not users sharing stuff. Most of the western stuff is just utter rubbish because it's basically become a religious channel who's primary purpose is to sell "the message" not make entertaining tv.
Some of the far eastern content is pretty good however.
TheDeeGee
It's why i still download with a paid Usenet account, costs me âŦ8 a month with unlimited speed. And i have access to more than just movies and series.
chispy
I dumped netflix about 2 years ago because they started to hike prices every 6-9 months at that time and i said enough is enough ,also they were not adding new content. Now i'm happy with my Prime tv wish is included on my amazon prime membership and local tv that i regularly watch , that's enough tv for me. Netflix has become very greedy as the years pass by.
Dyseman
Paying comedians $90mil per special and their many series and self-budgeted movies are $$$ spent. It doesn't replenish magically.
Luckily T-Mobile pays my Netflix and even if they didn't, I'd pay for it.
Things are going up. Hell, Best Buy just started charging $.10 per bag (Even though free shipping in a strong box with padding is still free same day delivered). Things go up. Sharing with friends and family should cost more. Why should they get a free ride when and you pay? I guess that'd hurt them more than you if you stopped sharing it and paid regular fee. Be Conservative with your subscriptions and not Liberally give it for nothing in return making more things go up.
tsunami231
I read this months back i not sure how they gona enforce this. I do know they should LET use "register" or device to the account, and IF we see device that are not our on the account let use de-register them and log them out with option of do let that device back on the account.
We have netflix account that is used between 2 house one in NC and one in NJ. cause parent go back and forth between them. At same time I know there device on account that should NOT be there cause there not ours and i track that stuff just like i track devices on our router, I change passed to lock them out just for them to re appear cause, there daughter is hand pass out her friend. i been wanting to black list the device i know arnt ours or are listing not NJ or NC for months that keep reappearing cause that regualry bases. but best i can do is log everyone out and change pass till she goes and hand it out again.only way they stop give to her is there account get flaged.
but I really thing we should option to register our own device and de register them and black list device it not one of ours. netflix just option to log device out, we cant actual deactivate device let alone black list them
fantaskarsef
I think you are right @tunejunky in recent years Netflix feels the competition more. HBO's something I'd love to get (not available in Austria), as well as giving Paramount+ a go (also, not available in Austria).
But yeah... netflix doesn't get better or cheaper, and amazon starts to sell you more and more things via third party sellers, circumventing your "prime delivery" options on a regular basis. It's still cheap streaming, but the prime delivery wouldn't be worth for me anymore, tbh.
While you are generally right, that's what mild inflation's supposed to do. Lucky enough, I earn more than enough to be able not to having to cancel subscriptions to pay my rent or food or heating.
But I honestly held it like that: smartness in buying doesn't always only show in making the smartest purchase, but also, knowing when to skip one if you don't get what you should.
tunejunky
VPNs don't work w/ Netflix. you're required to D/L content outside of your "region" even if it's 20 miles away
also...kids in college on their parent's dime.
imho there should be a some kind of official rite of passage for when adult children leave your cellular and media acc'ts.
