Even when a family member, friend, or a romantic partner watches a netflix show on an account that they didn't personally pay for, they're still watching netflix, still talking about good shows they saw on netflix with others, still posting about things they saw on netflix online, and still providing netflix with valuable data and metrics and netflix is still making money.
I mostly pay for the convenience. Make it inconvenient and I'll use my time to make it work my way.
You almost certainly in fact paid for 4 concurrent streams in the same household, and you were just out of compliance on your contract the whole time.
Netflix has no such "real-world" limit to apply that naturally covers students and other dependants, so they seem stuck with various contrived options.
I feel like # of simultaneous streams really ought to have been the natural limiter. If you're allowed two streams, it doesn't make a difference in the real world whether the two streams are to the same physical house or not.
I have 600 movies on my Plex setup and 10ish TV shows w multiple seasons.
I aint ever paying for Netflix/HBO/Apple TV/etc.
Come to the dark side
[0] https://about.netflix.com/en/news/update-on-sharing-may-us
Something tells me this isn't going to go the way the would have hoped.
Netflix is renowned for testing changes to the product, learning from the data, and iterating. We know that they have been testing in various markets over the last year or so.
So I'd be pretty sure that they are confident in this change.
1. controversial enough people begin drawing lines in the sand
2. increasing prices without any customer benefit
3. going against the headwinds of the economy as consumers tighten their belts
Maybe you're right, but I can't think of a single time this hasn't backfired. The Law of Unintended Consequences is a law for a reason.
Looks like anyone getting netflix via T-Mobile/etc are even more out of luck.
Lol, no thanks.
Great time to buy puts for next earnings.
2. Dependent is different from household.
