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It's extremely common for governments to have rules, and legal rulings, based on who counts as a family or a household. Businesses are often forced to follow th
by nitwit005 4y ago
It's extremely common for governments to have rules, and legal rulings, based on who counts as a family or a household. Businesses are often forced to follow those rules, as they are providing service to a "household", must allow "family" visit ill relatives, and so forth.
The only "techno-hubris" is thinking they can determine this by IP address.
- autoexec 4y agoI think the hubris is thinking that this will make them more money instead of just convincing people to leave and pissing off their customers who have already dealt with years of Netflix jacking up their prices, ignoring their feedback, canceling popular shows, the increase in ads, the sharp decline of Netflix's catalog in terms of quality/quantity, etc. Convince is one of the few things Netflix still has going for it, and they're about make using their service a pain in the ass for a lot of paying customers. Not a smart move. I'm totally fine with netflix going after abusive sharing. If 30 people are logging in with the same account from IPs all over the country/world by all means cut them off, but people who signed up for family plans and pay for access to netflix over a certain number of screen should get exactly that without being hassled. I haven't been bitten by this yet personally, but once I have been I'll be reevaluating my subscription and I strongly suspect I'll either be canceling entirely, or at the very least going to a much cheaper plan that better represents what I'm actually getting from Netflix.