Meanwhile, for completely unrelated reasons, I decided to mention that the https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/ instance is run by the former top mod of /r/piracy.
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It's funny how everyone said they would give up on netflix once the whole password sharing was tossed out, but here we are with netflix hitting higher numbers and no one leaving. Every streaming service out there is gonna follow the same practice since it'll make them more money. If you dont agree with how they are doing things, then leave. It's the only way to influence their decisions.
My threat hasn't changed. I split my time between three states and so far hasn't given me shit any time I switch location. The moment they do, I cancel. I'm mostly watching Paramount+ and Pluto anyway.
Well, as long as your devices are not TVs and are online from your "household" location at least once every 30 days, it shouldn't complain as far as I understand it
I have to move my household everytime I switch locations since I normally spend months at a time per place. As long as it lets me do this as much as I need to, we're cool. The moment it tells me I've reached a limit to the number of times I can switch locations within a given time period, I'm moving on.
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The first 2 months dont really count. People wanna finish that one show or continue until they find a good replacement.
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People on reddit/lemmy said they would leave. They dont really represent the vast majority.
Netflix was the canary in the coal mines. Now I suspect we will see most if not all streaming services to follow in the coming months/year.
I sure hope so.
"Surely all the people who share subscriptions because they can't all afford 25 streaming services will each get their own accounts if we block password sharing, as opposed to just not using our services any more!"
That was what people said and then did the opposite.
"Netflix added 5.9 million new subscribers in the last three months – almost three times as many as analysts expected – after clamping down on households that were sharing their passwords."
Source: https://www.theguardian.com/media/2023/jul/19/netflix-subscriber-growth-password-sharing
I'll stick with my "nothing a month" plan.
My Plex server will continue forward on it's ongoing 12+ year long mission of not giving a fuck while continuing to provide me with all my content!
Worked well for for Netflix, stock is up 30% since May.
If anyone can pull it off it's Disney. Parents will keep shelling out whatever Disney demands to keep their kids entertained.
they saw all the lemmings get new Netflix accounts, and figured if the sheep were lining up to be shorn, they might as well get their share too
The market is so short sited. Sure, Netflix saw a bump in subscribers last quarter, but what were the cancellation numbers in the same quarter? I never got to see that info. I'm sure there's more than a handful of people that didn't mind spending $10 to finish the series they were binging, just to cancel the subscription shortly after. If you have more subscribers and more cancellations, does it really matter?
All that matters is how you frame your situation to your investors.
It helps that Disney is desperate for money, immediately if not sooner.
corporations always say they're desperate for money, since they pay out any money they have to shareholders and executive salaries, and whoops, look at that, desperate for money again, can you believe it, we just don't know how we could have avoided this desperation in the first place. it's the dril candles meme, and everyone keeps stoking it.
Have to wait for theater movies to come to my paid subscription (non-premium or whatever the name is) and now wont be able to split the costs with the rest of the family? Fuck that!
Jesus, what's with the bot in the comments, do I even want to click on that picture?
Report and block, that's what I did. We don't need that nonsense around here