Netflix says people just kind of rolled over and accepted the password sharing crackdown::Netflix subscriptions are up almost 6 million this quarter, suggesting we’re all just too exhausted to fight this stuff
I rolled… Of of my inlaws Netflix account and directly into the welcoming arms of piracy. I’ve always ridden the high seas as needed, but now I raise the black flag with pride since the only streaming I pay for now is music (music piracy is just as easy as normal piracy, but it’s a lot more annoying to manage if you like to listen to a variety of stuff)
I get upset about a lot of things, but the end of password sharing isn’t one of them. Complaining about it is just about the most privileged, entitled thing I can imagine.
Using an advertised feature is “privileged and entitled”???
They literally charged extra for more simultaneous streams, and let you set up multiple profiles. Password sharing was an intended, advertised feature that people paid for.
Wanting what you were sold is not entitled or privileged. That’s a baseline of transactions.
Ok, fine. But this is not what people are really complaining about and you know it. I am a cheap ass, I’ll admit it. But I’m not that cheap.
This is literally exactly what people are complaining about. Myself included.
Yeah, while I have no problem with people who just ran extra lines to their neighbours so they could get free cable, there’s an unsaid but obvious “of course the cable company understandably doesn’t approve and will shut that down if they can find out it’s happening and might even go after the others for back subscriptions”.
Corporate overreach sucks but this is not an example of that. My position on this is being surprised they allowed it for so long and confused as to how people justify their outrage about it.
Because you have to buy the 4x plan in order to enjoy features like UHD. As it is digital there is absolutely no reason, why they couldn’t bundle it so there is a standard and premium plan available both for family access or just for single access.
This is like McDonalds only serving you drinks if you buy at least two meals, but forbidding you to give away the second meal.
Stories like this are weird. As are the reactions.
It’s a nominal cost for a lot of content. Some people lost access to it because they were sharing accounts, and millions who did decided that it was worth the $12 or whatever to get their own account.
And?
I would counterargue it is different from a traditional price increase. Netflix basically ‘‘backstabbed’’ their consumers, by altering the contract they followed for years and even repeteadly made marketing and promises in that regard (all the ‘‘sharing netflix with family and friends is an expression of love’’ posts).
If the price had increased, it would be another reaction, but this new house limitation is really a petty move that feels a lot worse. I hope the other streamings just increase the price and let people share the same account.
I have a netflix subscription for “free” through my phone plan, that’s the only reason I didn’t cancel. I’m still sharing with everyone I know because I have a plex server and just add whatever netflix shows people want to see onto it.
