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“What about a child whose divorced parents share custody of her?” Since both parents have an account, the child in question will always be at a location where
by uberman 4y ago
“What about a child whose divorced parents share custody of her?”
Since both parents have an account, the child in question will always be at a location where validated devices exist.
If the child has their own device and returns weekly to where ever their device is homed, their device will always be valid.
There is no issue here and no little girl "coping with the dissolution of her parents’ marriage, would have to keep calling up a media company to get their TV access unblocked"
"I suggested that one test case should be a family based in Manila, whose dad travels to remote provinces to do agricultural labor, whose daughter works as a nanny in California, and whose son does construction work in the United Arab Emirates."
I can see an issue with a parent who travels for periods longer than a month such as the "agricultural labor" here, but why would Netflix need to support adult children who live and work full time in other countries? Of course they should have their own accounts.
- sidewndr46 4y agoThe whole thing is a bit of a hypothetical thought experiment anyways. The licensing in those locales is different & the list of acceptable content is different in them as well. Netflix cannot simply give a child access to that content because their parents happen to be in another country. It's a violation of their licensing agreement and also can land them in jail in some circumstances.
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- dzhiurgis 4y agoI guess my point would be - don’t call it a family then…
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- schnable 4y agoThey don't - they call it a household and define it as people living in the same place. Doctorow is blurring the reality of the policy to score outrage points.