Netflix's password-sharing crackdown is coming. It already looks grim.

[onomatopoeia]

I don't need streaming services. I have torrentday.

 

[Mr.Gr33k]

Strange!!!! So my ex had a profile for his kids, my daughter and me. I would be at the trailer and his kids where at their home and my daughter at home and she wouldn’t be able to watch if me and the ex’s kids were watching.

What plan do you have if you don’t mind me asking? I have standard; maybe you have premium? Which allows up to 4 users at one time.

Yes, premium account.

 

[krealtarron]

Or use fmovies.to and cancel Netflix subscriptions. Thank me later!

 

[whitmore]

Netflix is already the most expensive streaming service. Their logic doesn’t recognize children living with the ex, step children, at university, or cottages.

I have the premium service with 4 concurrent screens. Why does it matter where my family is?

I am better off canceling my regular monthly billing. Purchase just a select couple of months a year.

 

[Jenesis]

Yes, premium account.

So that is why. If you tried with over 4 people, I promise you it would not let someone. I have a standard which is only 2 people at once.

Now it says “household” but I have been able to use it in multiple places, if that is the part that stops, I will just stop with Netflix.

 

[Valcazar]

Netflix wants to chop down your family tree

The enshittification cycle comes for your most private domain.

doctorow.medium.com

 

[chodge]

Password sharing is over, it will be limited to the household. Unless you know to simulate the same IP address.

Netflix, the streaming giant headquartered in the Bay Area, has been threatening a substantial password-sharing crackdown for months. This week, the company finally started to roll out some of its changes. As expected, they are gobsmackingly awful and indeed reviled by everyday users, privacy advocates and even famed musicians. Rightfully so: The new policies represent an invasive, unsustainable solution to a “problem” other streaming services don’t seem too worried about solving.


Netflix’s latest changes, which are currently on trial in Chile, Costa Rica and Peru (where it has tried to enforce other troubling password measures), would require you to log into your account from your “household” — basically, the place you primarily use the service — at least once every 31 days. Attempting to sign in from a location other than your household could result in your account being blocked unless you pay more to add extra users.

These updates were posted on the company’s U.S. help page this week, causing an instant uproar. A spokesperson for Netflix later told the Streamable that the guidelines had been posted by accident, but it is more than likely that this change will come for users stateside too.
The naivety on display here from Netflix executives is truly remarkable. Users who already refuse to pay a mere $10 per month for the service’s ad-free experience won’t be inclined to start paying now just to appease the bottomless maws of shareholders and C-suite execs. People online have already started deliberating the merits of returning to torrenting and shady streamers to avoid having to pay for multiple Netflix subscriptions.

https://www.sfgate.com/tech/article/netflix-password-sharing-crackdown-17759532.php

the people sharing were never customers in the first place

 

[escortsxxx]

Password sharing is over, it will be limited to the household. Unless you know to simulate the same IP address.

Netflix, the streaming giant headquartered in the Bay Area, has been threatening a substantial password-sharing crackdown for months. This week, the company finally started to roll out some of its changes. As expected, they are gobsmackingly awful and indeed reviled by everyday users, privacy advocates and even famed musicians. Rightfully so: The new policies represent an invasive, unsustainable solution to a “problem” other streaming services don’t seem too worried about solving.


Netflix’s latest changes, which are currently on trial in Chile, Costa Rica and Peru (where it has tried to enforce other troubling password measures), would require you to log into your account from your “household” — basically, the place you primarily use the service — at least once every 31 days. Attempting to sign in from a location other than your household could result in your account being blocked unless you pay more to add extra users.

These updates were posted on the company’s U.S. help page this week, causing an instant uproar. A spokesperson for Netflix later told the Streamable that the guidelines had been posted by accident, but it is more than likely that this change will come for users stateside too.
The naivety on display here from Netflix executives is truly remarkable. Users who already refuse to pay a mere $10 per month for the service’s ad-free experience won’t be inclined to start paying now just to appease the bottomless maws of shareholders and C-suite execs. People online have already started deliberating the merits of returning to torrenting and shady streamers to avoid having to pay for multiple Netflix subscriptions.

https://www.sfgate.com/tech/article/netflix-password-sharing-crackdown-17759532.php

Sound like we need the death penalty for illegal sharers. A few public executions and profits will be protected.

 

[Geee]

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I don't need streaming services. I have torrentday.

Is that a private tracker or a pub one? My seedbox is hungry but I need me some private ones for better result quality.

 

[Geee]

the people sharing were never customers in the first place

Bull, most people who share either share the account with family members in or out of the household or with friends. Many do it in a round robin sort of way, one person paying for Netflix, another for Hulu or whatever other service has some good shows in order to keep costs down because Streaming is becoming TV 2.0, Overpriced and carved out into 100's of little fiefdoms.

 

[brualex33]

Go do some research on this thing called the internet genius.

Very helpful, thanks.

 

[Phil C. McNasty]

How?

IPTV or torrents

 

[MuffDiver]

Go do some research on this thing called the internet genius.

Some people are not tech savvy, so no need to be a jerk about it. The answer is torrents, for those who are not familiar.

Imagine if you asked a question about a topic you were unfamiliar with and someone belittled you? Or are you one of those faceless internet people who know eveything. No need to reply, as I don't care. Just try having a little courtesy.

 

[hockeyguy19]

I am sort of glad that Netflix is cracking down on this and for one reason only. I am sick and tired of my wife's family mooching off of us on all the steaming services we pay for (yes, we pay for a few and I hate to admit it given the other options mentioned here). For years, her family has been watching on my dime and it drives me crazy. We changed the passwords and my asshole brother-in-law goes behind my back and gets it from my kids (who now stopped after I gave them shit).

To make it worse, they never, ever offered to kick some money into it. Then, a few weeks back, I am sitting with my wife's family and her sister, who mooches Netflix from us, in front of me, asks her husbands brother how much they owe him for the Disney plus that they are sharing. WTF! I lost my shit. Ungrateful pieces of shit.

 

[AndrewX]

How does this work? What about the app when travelling? What about someone like me that has a second home in the summer?

I’m paying for a stream anywhere service and can’t take it anywhere now? I will just stop paying and do Kodi for Netflix stuff.

This is a good point, what if you want to watch Netflix on the gyms cardio machines? Or at the cottage or traveling?

 

[Jenesis]

This is a good point, what if you want to watch Netflix on the gyms cardio machines? Or at the cottage or traveling?

Exactly. I don’t know how this will go over.

All I have read is you have to login to your household wifi every 31 days. I have no idea how that stops sharing????

 

[black booty lover]

Very helpful, thanks.

Hey asshole, if you want people to treat you with respect, try practicing it.

Here's just one example of your douche bag attitude. Post # 49

https://terb.cc/xenforo/threads/apotex-founder-barry-sherman-and-wife-found-dead-in-basement.621891/page-3

 

[onomatopoeia]

MSN

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This article suggests that it will cost @Jenesis and other Standard package subscribers an extra $9 per month, including tax, to 'buy an extra member slot' for a secondary account.

"For that price, premium high-definition 4K subscribers — who pay $20.99 per month — can add up to two members who don't live in their household.

Standard subscribers, who pay $16.49 per month, can add one additional member for the same additional monthly fee."

It isn't clear whether a second user at the same physical address would be considered an extra member. If that's the case, upgrading to a Premium account would be less expensive.

 

[JackBurton]

So, can you just have it on your iPad and mirror it to your tv while travelling?

 

[Jenesis]

So, can you just have it on your iPad and mirror it to your tv while travelling?

So I read a little further. You wouldn’t have to do that. They are making some provisions for summer homes and travelling. But I don’t quite get it.

For travelling I do, you bring your device home and login to the app from your home wifi every 31 days to avoid being locked out. Easy enough. Just login into your iPad Netflix app at home once a month.

But how do you login into from your device at a summer home if you are using a smart TV or something? I have a fire stick at the trailer so I can literally bring it home if I want. But if it is a smart TV, then how does that work?