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I don't want to split hairs, but if I steal cable for a month, the cable company permanently loses the money I should have paid for a month of cable. Just beca
by cruise02 15y ago
I don't want to split hairs, but if I steal cable for a month, the cable company permanently loses the money I should have paid for a month of cable. Just because they don't lose the 1s and 0s they're selling doesn't mean there's no permanent loss.
My apartment has a rental agreement about how many people are allowed to live there. If I break the agreement by allowing ten friends to live there I lose my apartment. If I loan my NetFlix password to ten friends, I see no reason why they shouldn't just terminate my account.
- nobodyspecial 15y agobut you are making the mistake that you would have paid for the service if you did not pirate the cable.
- cruise02 15y agoI very clearly wrote should have paid, not would have paid.
- nobodyspecial 15y agoI agree - should have paid. People will always try to extract the last ounce of value out of anything, businesses and individuals are guilty of this - I just don't like seeing businesses using their relative size advantage to gain a legal advantage over individuals.
- Retric 15y agoThere is a big difference between cable an netflix. With cable you could tap a wire and they could not notice your use sage without significant effort. With netflix they can drop any account that uses more IP's or bandwidth than they want. Basically every time they serve up content they get to decide is this a valid use of the service, and with a little IP tracking there is little to stop this. PS: It's easy enough to say in the TOS, any account that has more than N IP's downloading movies at the same time get's blocked and it's password reset.