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Free plans don't work when the cost of providing a service is high. Google, Facebook and the like can happily give away their products for free and lose money o
by paxys 2y ago
Free plans don't work when the cost of providing a service is high. Google, Facebook and the like can happily give away their products for free and lose money on the bottom N% of users, because it still amounts to pennies. Netflix has high bandwidth and content licensing costs that scale per user, so they need some barrier to entry.
- notpushkin 2y agoCould they offset bandwidth by using torrents? I mean, it works for the pirates, even though there is no way to enforce people keep seeding (apart from private trackers maybe).
- ekwav 2y agoThey already do something similar called open connect https://openconnect.netflix.com/en/ https://openconnect.netflix.com/en/ I am pretty sure the biggest cost is licensing. Also why you see Netflix producing so much original content.