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> Kids away at college will just get their own accounts now. Or they won't and they'll just watch literally any other service which doesn't harass them about t
by autoexec 3y ago
> Kids away at college will just get their own accounts now.
Or they won't and they'll just watch literally any other service which doesn't harass them about their precise location day to day, or worse they'll just go back to downloading all their shows like starving college kids used to until netflix showed up and was actually affordable and more convenient than piracy.
- crazygringo 3y agoOr all services will do this, and students will just pay. Sure, there will be college students who are more technical and comfortable paying for a VPN and who will invest in an external hard drive and will download torrents in advance of watching, as there always has been. But that's way too complicated for most folks. And between the price of a monthly torrenting-friendly VPN and enough storage, the ad-supported tier of Netflix probably winds up being cheaper anyways.
- Larrikin 3y agoI think you've forgotten what the community at college was like. If one person on your floor knew how to pirate, the entire floor knew how to pirate by the end of the first semester. Streaming had begun to fill the niche of being convenient enough to not needing to bother, but broke college students are going to save money in all the places they can.
- raydev 3y ago> If one person on your floor knew how to pirate, the entire floor knew how to pirate by the end of the first semester This is not how it worked. Some percentage, say 20-30% knew how to pirate, and everyone else on the shared network profited because the 20-30% made public folders.