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Netflix has been enforcing concurrent streams for a while now, no? Four adults that live in four different houses sharing one Netflix account might not ever bu
by rrrrrrrrrrrryan 4y ago
Netflix has been enforcing concurrent streams for a while now, no?
Four adults that live in four different houses sharing one Netflix account might not ever bump up against the four concurrent stream limit. Their concurrent usage might be quite similar to a family of four under one roof.
But critically, the four adults are all technically capable of paying for their own subscriptions, while the children of the family of four are not.
Netflix is expecting to lose some (or most) of the people who are sharing passwords, but if some nonzero portion of them end up coughing up money for their own subscription, the effort is worthwhile.
- jstarfish 4y ago> Four adults that live in four different houses sharing one Netflix account might not ever bump up against the four concurrent stream limit. Their concurrent usage might be quite similar to a family of four under one roof. Realistically, the case to allow password sharing is four family members, living under the same roof, but not sharing the same internet connection. If the family is watching Netflix on their own phones over cellular (respectively: on train, out walking, at work, at school), you can't impose password-sharing restrictions on the account without fucking more than one of them over.
- josho 4y agoThose users won’t be affected by password sharing restrictions. The implementation details take into consideration those scenarios.
- PragmaticPulp 4y ago> Netflix has been enforcing concurrent streams for a while now, no? Yes. They've been doing more or less what the parent comment suggested for a very long time.
- lazyasciiart 4y agoI think the parent comment was suggesting that they allow more concurrent streams for additional money. ie: $4/month per additional concurrent user, now you have 10 friends on it for $56/month.