Netflix to block proxy access to content not available locally

Re:Netflix to block proxy access to content not available lo... by bborud on Thursday January 14, 2016 @12:09PM (#10902676)

Maybe not at scale, but to some degree. About a year ago I went from watching TV series on streaming services about 1-2 hours per day to...well almost nothing.

Initially it was because I had exhausted all the series I was interested in. But now there are many seasons worth of content that....I'm probably not going to watch any time soon. Because my habits have changed. The time I spent on watching shows is now spent doing something else. A show has to be extremely good for me to bother watching it. (Like Mr Robot. What a great show).

I've started watching a few shows again. But now it is at the rate of 1-2 episodes per week across all shows. Rather than 2-3 episodes per day. And it is a bit...boring now.

I'm not typical, but the industry has to be aware that people can change their habits. And they won't necessarily change them back.

(So what do I do instead? I spend more time making stuff and reading / listening to audio books while making. In the last year I read / listened to somewhere between 55 and 65 books. Not counting technical or scientific books)

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Re:Netflix to block proxy access to content not available lo... by rhodysurf on Thursday January 14, 2016 @01:23PM (#10903255)

Agree that its possible (and that Mr. Robot is great haha) I just think that the way things are moving socially with millennials who hang out together and barely look away from their phones it is more likely they will binge watch more shows rather than less. Just an opinion though.

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