In a blog post Tuesday, Netflix has announced that, starting today, it will be sending this email to subscribers who are sharing Netflix outside their household in the United States. That’s right, the Netflix password sharing crackdown has finally hit the United States.
A Netflix account is for use by one household. Everyone living in that household can use Netflix wherever they are — at home, on the go, on holiday — and take advantage of new features like Transfer Profile and Manage Access and Devices.
MacDailyNews Take: Netflix’s password sharing crackdown could very well lead to an uptick in Apple TV+ subscriptions as Apple’s streaming service is significantly more affordable ($6.99 per month) while offering a rapidly growing library of high-quality, major award-winning TV series and films.
More about “Sharing your Netflix account” from the company here.
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Walled garden in force?
No, wiseguy. Netflix is a video producer with a direct-to-consumer subscription service that has decided to crack down on cheapskates abusing the terms of service. It is bound by FCC law and has been very lenient with its unpaying customers.
In comparison, iOS is a walled garden where app developers cannot serve customers in any way that Timmy doesn’t like, and his monopoly store has power to change the rules whenever it desires. This is in direct contrast to the Mac or Windows, where the user has control over his electronic device.
A patriot who is sick of paying for his remote king’s luxury might call for a tea party, but apparently modern colonists are happy to bear the yoke of corporatism. In fact they now form tribes to squabble over the crumbs while corporate executives laugh all the way to the bank. After all, consumer gadget distractions make the poor feel free, right? Let them eat iOS cake and feed them an extra helping of Faux Noooze to rile up the lemmings.
Did you get chatgpt to write that?
This is so stupid. They should charge by simultaneous usage. Why should they care where we are sitting when we watch it? If I pay for 2 simultaneous views and 3 people try to watch it, then one if us will have to wait. I’d be fine with that. I’m getting what I pay for, but they offer no such option. Their solution is to try to dictate where we should sit when we watch the TV we are paying for.
I am canceling my subscription for three reasons. First because I don’t watch it that much anyway. Second, because I don’t like to be told where I must sit in order to use the services that I just paid for, and third, because they are too stupid to figure out a simpler solution like charging us for usage and I strongly believe that stupid people shouldn’t be rewarded for making life more inconvenient for many people.
Rewarding stupid people is almost morally wrong. Stupid people almost always add extra steps or extra obstacles into the lives of humanity. They slow our progress, and gradually make things worse for us all.
It is like charging a gas tax and then adding toll booths too. If you need the extra money how about raising the gas tax? Yes I’ve heard the “Why should I pay for your bridge that I never drive over there?” Well, why should I pay for the millions of miles of roads and bridges I never drive on either?
Maybe all car insurance should be paid by gas tax too. No uninsured drivers and no paper work to file–but I digress. The point is that tens of thousands of stupid decisions have led to the stupid world we find ourselves living in.
Do you want a simpler life? Yeah, me too. So let’s all start rewarding “Simplification”. What Netflix is doing is NOT simplification which means they are leading all of us in the wrong direction. It is our responsibility not to follow the lead of these stupid people.
Long post from someone who didn’t read the Netflix user agreement.
Since you pretend to be so knowledgeable of the EUA, why don’t you go ahead and quote chapter and verse how “up to four simultaneous streams” is defined in the CURRENT user agreement…
Too lazy to find it yourself?
Freeloaders who aren’t actually in a household cost $7.99 now. Cry a river.
I wasn’t taking about the CURRENT agreement. I have no problem with the way I am currently using it. I am talking about the NEW rules that all users of the service MUST be siting in the same place
When did you get the impression that a corporation has any desire to cater to your specific travel requirements?
At some point one has to learn: pay for the ride or take a hike.
Yes, but Apple doesn’t produce The Crown, so Netflix has my money until at least that series has ended.
The method that I am now putting it to use does not bother me in the least. I am referring to the NEW regulations that state it is mandatory for all users of the service to sit in the same location.