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Exactly! But that's just how it goes. Once leadership identifies a problem, it takes a lot to dissuade them. They saw password sharing as a fixable problem, an

Exactly! But that's just how it goes. Once leadership identifies a problem, it takes a lot to dissuade them. They saw password sharing as a fixable problem, an area of loss revenue that they had to do something about to counter the metrics of stagnating subscriber growth. Very little would change that, even though your approach would prove to be quite beneficial

willis936 3y ago
They envision the back pats they'll give themselves for the success of their great idea, but not the fallout of their terrible idea. Sycophants should never be given authority.
smcl 3y ago
I wonder if those responsible will take this as a lesson learned, or will brush it off as “well they wouldn’t have paid anyway”
- scotty79 3y ago
  The problem they have now is not that people who didn't pay wouldn't pay. They are now losing people who actually paid.
BLO716 3y ago
Spot on, my boy. A lot of folks see this as a consumable like music and should be a free commodity. I akin this to free music for download and the death of an industry. A NEW industry popped up and gave us streaming music and there was no longer a need to OWN music. Artists were also given tools to expand their music on every platform w/ very little investment. The shared resource thing, is just Netflix turning a blind eye, because their business model worked for a time and allowed this to happen. Now that DVDs are all but dead, this was the next logical business revenue model that needed a revamp. How can anyone blame Netflix for FIXING a loss leader in their business line(s)? We all run and work for start-ups .. its the natural progression of finances at scale.
mcguire 3y ago
I once heard a story about Microsoft: a research group had discovered that they could control the radio-frequency emissions of computers with code, and could broadcast the license serial number of running software. Unfortunately, the signal was too weak to detect unless a large number of computers were broadcasting the same license number. But you could easily discover companies that were illegally sharing licenses by driving a radio equipped van around the business district. (I probably have most of the details wrong; it's been years.) Anyway, the punchline was that Microsoft wasn't interested because it wouldn't catch all illegal licenses.

willis936 3y ago

They envision the back pats they'll give themselves for the success of their great idea, but not the fallout of their terrible idea. Sycophants should never be given authority.

smcl 3y ago

I wonder if those responsible will take this as a lesson learned, or will brush it off as “well they wouldn’t have paid anyway”

scotty79 3y ago
The problem they have now is not that people who didn't pay wouldn't pay. They are now losing people who actually paid.

BLO716 3y ago

Spot on, my boy. A lot of folks see this as a consumable like music and should be a free commodity. I akin this to free music for download and the death of an industry. A NEW industry popped up and gave us streaming music and there was no longer a need to OWN music. Artists were also given tools to expand their music on every platform w/ very little investment. The shared resource thing, is just Netflix turning a blind eye, because their business model worked for a time and allowed this to happen. Now that DVDs are all but dead, this was the next logical business revenue model that needed a revamp. How can anyone blame Netflix for FIXING a loss leader in their business line(s)? We all run and work for start-ups .. its the natural progression of finances at scale.

mcguire 3y ago

I once heard a story about Microsoft: a research group had discovered that they could control the radio-frequency emissions of computers with code, and could broadcast the license serial number of running software. Unfortunately, the signal was too weak to detect unless a large number of computers were broadcasting the same license number. But you could easily discover companies that were illegally sharing licenses by driving a radio equipped van around the business district. (I probably have most of the details wrong; it's been years.) Anyway, the punchline was that Microsoft wasn't interested because it wouldn't catch all illegal licenses.