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The various discussions here have me curious if the widespread practice of netflix account sharing (which I believe is forbidden but not really enforced to a de
by georgemcbay 8y ago
The various discussions here have me curious if the widespread practice of netflix account sharing (which I believe is forbidden but not really enforced to a degree that they clearly could if they wanted to) actually helps maintain subscriber count by sort of averaging out demand among a pool of people.
If I suddenly am not using netflix more than an hour or two per month because my attention is elsewhere, I would be pretty likely to cancel my subscription, but if someone else were using my account and I either knew they used netflix quite a bit, or their usage was currently unknown to me, I'd be way less likely to bother cancelling my account.
- ngcc_hk 8y agoThey sort of promote sharing by let you have an account and multiple device. Or just my region?
- travisjungroth 8y agoI think it’s a form of voluntary price segmentation. If you’re in a rich family, everyone has their own account. If you’re in a poor family, you could have 10 people on one account. The middle class does what you’re talking about, maybe shares it between two people but you have a higher retention rate. This way Netflix gets as much as it can from everyone.