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> I might just not have to imagination, but a DRM free Netflix wouldn't seem to work -- you pay a low monthly fee for temporary access to a huge library. What w

> I might just not have to imagination, but a DRM free Netflix wouldn't seem to work -- you pay a low monthly fee for temporary access to a huge library. What would you prefer? I do not get your point. Perhaps I misunderstand it, because English is not my mother tongue. I do not see a problem. First: If I really download a lot, I will soon get out of disk space (even if I own a NAS). Second: Netflix adds new movies/series all the time to its library. So there is an incentive to stay a subscriber.

joshuamorton 8y ago
Storage is cheap. You can store 500 hours of video in a TB. And four TB is less than one year of Netflix, but gives you enough storage to download enough video to last a few years. I'd pay for one month of Netflix every two years instead of monthly, without question.
- wolfgke 8y ago
  > I'd pay for one month of Netflix every two years instead of monthly, without question. I can imagine that in this case Netflix would just have to change the price model somewhat: Make the first month much more expensive than the following ones to give a disincentive for canceling the subscription. At least this pricing model is applied by many software companies who love to sell subscriptions for their software.
  - joshuamorton 8y ago
    I'm sure Netflix would have seen explosive growth if it required 1 year, $100+ contracts, and that's assuming content producers would have been okay with it (they wouldn't have). Sure they could have used a different business model, but had they, we wouldn't be talking about Netflix.
  - CJefferson 8y ago
    But, that would I imagine be terrible for Netflix -- their cheap monthly price encourages people to sign up on a whim. I suspect very few people would sign up if the first month had been much more expensive.
    - nybble41 8y ago
      They could keep the cheap monthly price for first-time subscribers, and just make it so that if you cancel and want to sign back up later you're charged for all the months in between.
- imtringued 8y ago
  At that point why even bother with netflix? Downloading the streams and watching them without a subscription is still copyright infringement. Illegal streaming sites have existed for decades already. The primary benefit of DRM free netflix is to watch higher resolution videos on any browser that isn't Edge. [1] [1] https://help.netflix.com/en/node/23742 https://help.netflix.com/en/node/23742
xfer 8y ago
The point is content maynot be worth watching, but you don't know unless you paid for it. You can make space by just keeping the content that are worth watching more than once, which in my experience is a very small fraction of the amount of movies produced.

joshuamorton 8y ago

Storage is cheap. You can store 500 hours of video in a TB. And four TB is less than one year of Netflix, but gives you enough storage to download enough video to last a few years. I'd pay for one month of Netflix every two years instead of monthly, without question.

wolfgke 8y ago
> I'd pay for one month of Netflix every two years instead of monthly, without question. I can imagine that in this case Netflix would just have to change the price model somewhat: Make the first month much more expensive than the following ones to give a disincentive for canceling the subscription. At least this pricing model is applied by many software companies who love to sell subscriptions for their software.
- joshuamorton 8y ago
  I'm sure Netflix would have seen explosive growth if it required 1 year, $100+ contracts, and that's assuming content producers would have been okay with it (they wouldn't have). Sure they could have used a different business model, but had they, we wouldn't be talking about Netflix.
- CJefferson 8y ago
  But, that would I imagine be terrible for Netflix -- their cheap monthly price encourages people to sign up on a whim. I suspect very few people would sign up if the first month had been much more expensive.
  - nybble41 8y ago
    They could keep the cheap monthly price for first-time subscribers, and just make it so that if you cancel and want to sign back up later you're charged for all the months in between.
imtringued 8y ago
At that point why even bother with netflix? Downloading the streams and watching them without a subscription is still copyright infringement. Illegal streaming sites have existed for decades already. The primary benefit of DRM free netflix is to watch higher resolution videos on any browser that isn't Edge. [1] [1] https://help.netflix.com/en/node/23742 https://help.netflix.com/en/node/23742

xfer 8y ago

The point is content maynot be worth watching, but you don't know unless you paid for it. You can make space by just keeping the content that are worth watching more than once, which in my experience is a very small fraction of the amount of movies produced.