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Curious, how would licensing affect this? Would the assumption be that everyone resides under the same roof? Because that's not a requirement for being in a fam

• tekknik 5y ago
  No, generally to license content you pay a fee per screen in this case as well as a fee per viewer. In the case of families this is calculated by the amount of people in the account. They don’t charge your costs per person, they charge a flat rate based on the maximum number of people you can add to your account. So doing it this way they’re not circumventing the per device fee they are charged that you’re trying to get them to pay for you for free.
  • dumpsterdiver 5y ago
    > They don’t charge your costs per person, they charge a flat rate based on the maximum number of people you can add to your account. So doing it this way they’re not circumventing the per device fee they are charged that you’re trying to get them to pay for you for free. I'm confused, how am I trying to get them to provide anything for free? I pay for the service, and that service has a limited number of account slots, and the people using those slots have their own devices. What am I missing? Are you under the assumption that child accounts don't occupy a slot, and are free-riding? If so, that's not the case. Child accounts occupy a slot all the same, the only difference is that by providing child accounts to my adult friends, they aren't required to link their existing Apple accounts to the service that's under my control.