And a growth in my friends using my server, let the public support unethical business practices, we'll get fat off their content.
Too bad Netflix content isn't good anymore, it's concerning what the general public enjoy.
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I haven't followed the Netflix password news all that closely because I barely ever use Netflix - but when I do use it it's through password sharing an account my sister pays for. That worked as recently as just a week ago.
Should I expect that to stop working soon?
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well maybe if majority is feeding them, they wont actively crack down those sailing the high seas?
I didn't think there was doubt this would work, it's just a dumbass way of making up the "lost" profit. When you got a Netflix subscription before this, it was based on the total simultaneous screen count. Where the screens are should not matter, and never should have mattered. A simpler, less idiotic solution would have been to rethink the price per screen cost and adjust the plans. It would have been a more acceptable compromise that accomplished the same goal.
As a person in charge of shared Netflix subscription for my friends I noped out the moment they started password sharing crackdown. Yeah, they added "small" charge to add more users to subscription but the writing was on the wall and I realized I was the frog being boiled.
2 of my friends went for basic plan separately. The cost of 2 basic subscriptions is about the same as 4k / 4 screens one we were using before. So yeah, subscriber count up, now Netflix needs to do a rug pull on basic plan (which they already do in US and UK).
I don't even see a need to pirate stuff from Netflix these days, barely anything worth watching. I still pay for HBO, Disney+, Apple TV+ (part of family Apple One) and Prime - which in the country I live in cost together about they same as Netflix did lol.
How much is Netflix and how much is HBO? Where I am HBO is nearly as much as Netflix. I'm curious to see what differences there are elsewhere. For me, Prime is only cost effective comparatively because I qualify as a student currently.
Can't reply to kbin accounts due to language bug so I'll reply to myself:
- Netflix 4k is 60 PLN / mo
- HBO is 30 (but you could lock in 20 if you subscribed early on, which I did)
- Dinsey+ is 29 / mo (24 / mo if yearly, which I did)
- Prime is 49 / year (4 / mo), Amazon tries to fight local competitor on free delivery and for some reason they include streaming with that
- Apple TV+ I'm getting as part of Apple One family sub (45 / mo but that's Apple Music, TV+, Arcade and iCloud for my whole household)