netflix scammed me early on in their development before it was a household name, by requiring someone to pay for a subscription to redeem a gift subscription. I

netflix scammed me early on in their development before it was a household name, by requiring someone to pay for a subscription to redeem a gift subscription. I bought a gift sub from them that was unredeemable by their nonsense rules, basically. As a result, i simply acquired everything i would have watched on netflix elsewhere instead. They've lost years of revenue from me for one month's stolen sub fee. Did they forget that piracy is a service problem? This is just going to have the same effect