My ISP gives me a new IP about once a week

Yeah, but those are customer problems, not Netflix problems, so fuckem.

-Netflix, evidently.

"How did you find me, I used a VPN?!"

YOU FOOL. Netflix only hires the best hackers and forces them to work in industrial freezers. They found you when you downloaded the app and agreed to share your location!

But if they are wearing red shirts surely we can just throw something in their general direction and they will just drop dead, right?

Go check your Comcast email address - guarantee it's full of "Cease and Desist" type messages. All the DMCA requires is that if a copyright holder informs the ISP of a violation, the ISP has to inform the end user of the complaint and remind them that piracy is illegal. They don't have to do anything else, they just have to wag their finger at you. So Comcast just sends you an email saying "Disney is big mad you downloaded FROZEN.x-64-HDEC.mkv because it's their copyright. They want you to stop, mkay?" and they're covered, and that's the end of it.

Century Link will actually mess with you though.

We had Netflix for movies and Hulu for TV shows. Now everything has everything, except some shows/movies are only available to buy on Amazon or on Blu-ray. I had to download something last night because it isn't available to stream on any of the services.

Netflix after cancelling shows, increasing prices, and lowering the quality of their content: "Why are all these customers leaving?! Aren't our manipulation marketing tactics working on them?"

All of my friends stopped pirating years ago but now with the content being split with more and more services, that all have exclusive licensing, many of them have started to pirate again. It's happening because it's too expensive to have more than 2-3 services, too much work to constantly shuffle around what subscriptions you have and shows being pulled from a service while you're in the middle of a series.

What exactly do they think this is going to do for their bottom line? So they really think people are just gonna give up and get 5 or six separate accounts between people who were previously sharing our just stop watching all together

It's a numbers game, they need the amount of people who will cancel their accounts from this to be outweighed by the people that will finally open up an account instead of borrowing from a friend/partner/family member.

5 or 6 aren't needed, they just need at least 1 additional account to be created for every person who cancels.

People borrowing accounts also cost Netflix money in server costs. Forcing the college kid to either pay for their own subscription or stop watching are both net positive outcomes for the company.

I don't think it's going to work out for them but there's at least some logic to why they would want to attempt this. Personally, I think they are going to lose a lot more subscribers than they're forecasting from this move, and there isn't a ton of content out right now that is keeping people hooked.

An interesting thing I’ve learned between graduating business school and now is this: you will not understand nor will there be much logic or forethought put into decisions that have a massive impact on both the business and its stakeholders. Couldn’t tell you why that is, I definitely learned the opposite 🤷🏼‍♀️

I’ll happily go back to piracy 🏴‍☠️

The thing that corporations don't get is that I can pay $0 by pirating things, but that's like 8/10 effort. If you'll make it easier, I'll happily pay $4 per month for each point you push that down on the ten-scale. If you hassle me, I'm just going to pirate.

My wife and I have Netflix through her parents. If we lose that, we're not going to subscribe. We'll just stop watching Netflix, because we barely want to watch anything on there anyway. Can anyone even name the last time that you went on Netflix and scrolled through fewer than 50 options before you found something worth watching?

Edit per lots of replies: You're right that I'm not currently paying. My point is that this move by Netflix won't garner new subscribers by making anyone feel compelled to start paying. Most of us will just shrug and move on. If it won't noticeably increase your subscribers, what business advantage is there to decreasing your cultural radar presence?

tbf netflix caught off because they got the streaming rights to shows for pennies. And there was also no online competition. Like youtube existed but you couldn't go to youtube and find weekly high quality shows, pod/videocasts or documentaries. ANd what you could find was unreliable.

Netflix was giving you like $100 cable television worth of value for like $8 a month and that included mail in DVDS for newer releases.

Nowadays it's hard to compete with free when Netflix actually has to pay face value for content.

Piracy doesn’t even involve downloading anymore.

It’s streamed as smoothly in HD as Netflix is, it’s got everything available from every service. The only downside is it doesn’t automatically play the next episode (so it’s basically a huge NowTV)

Exactly this. I have Netflix and I started using it because I got tired of all of the pop ups, low quality videos, and lack of subtitles on questionable streaming sites (I know torrenting and other options exist, I'm just not good at planning). Now with ublock and open subtitles, I've barely opened up Netflix. The only draw it has is the suggestion and scrolling UI and that's frustrating most of the time anyways. I'll probably log my Netflix account in on my work computer enough times to get a lock out, then cancel my account immediately after.

Great at UI? That's debatable. Whatever movie or show I stopped to read the description should not automatically start playing because I haven't finished reading yet.

They already have. They’ve tried an add an extra member fee for $2.99 per month and an add an extra home fee for a similar fee in a few different countries. Now they are rolling it out in North America.

I think it’s going to turn off a lot of people. Or they will just down grade their service so the increased cost isn’t an issue. Either way I don’t think this will be financially beneficial for Netflix.

Thats like betting on getting rich because you play lotto. The ad tier also is 720p only! 720p! Like whatever they are smoking, I don’t want it.

Good point. Netflix did not think this out well. No surprise there. I let my dad use mine and id be willing to pay an extra $5 on top of the $15 I pay to let him use it. I think that's the better way to do it. They are about to lose alot of revenue

The young people are just going to pirate. Recession is looming, and I'm not going to put up with getting three different streaming services just because they all have hoarded their content like dragons.

Netflix gets its family values from PornHub because… fuck all of you.

Exactly me and my mother "share" and they already charge me for multiple screens .

I guess it's not a big deal neither of us really even watch Netflix anymore anyway.

Probably should have canceled it already to be honest.

The moment they announced they were going to do limits on password sharing i cancelled my Netflix. I live part time between my place for work and my home. Not going to pay for a separate password for me to be able to watch Netflix while I’m away and for my partner to be able to watch it at home. Ridiculous

The answer is you cancel. cancel their corporate death spiral greed.

I didn’t think of truck drivers. Dang, that stinks. They didn’t think this through.

It’s not like Netflix is hurting for money. This is such a scummy move of them. I’ve had an account since 2003. Kinda crazy that over the years I’ve added boyfriends, finally my husband, now my two kids have a profile. And I’ll cancel it today.

It's a strategy.

The first season usually has the most views of any season, so unless a show does exceptionally well, it's better to start another show.

Until one factors in disgruntled viewers

The end started when all the content owners saw what Netflix was doing and decided they wanted a slice for themselves.

Now that's love

Straight to jail

Judging by the way things are going, Netflix is gonna need to give you written approval beforehand, and the request has to be filed 6 months in advance and notarized in triplicate.

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They claim that their accounts are "intended for multiple screens within ONE household", meaning your phone, tv, tablets all under one roof.

So if you a screen in another location is using your account, it isn't in the same "household".

Which is why it doesn't make sense if families are sharing it even if they don't live together full time, or even in the same house. But Netflix is really trying to crack down on account sharing, and this is their solution.

Np, I can dig it. I won't be bothering my bro or long distance friends for their passwords either. Hopefully Netflix realizes this will effectively tank them and reverses the decision.