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Re:Netflix to cut streaming quality in Europe for 30 days by unethical_ban on Thursday March 19, 2020 @03:53PM (#22630979)
That's truly a good question - they could pull that data quickly and prorate people somehow. Maybe not for a bill already gone out, but perhaps going forward (even if they re-enable it).

I'm not going to knock them for this, given that we're talking about keeping critical infrastructure from being overrun while the remainder of the economy works distributed.

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Re:Netflix to cut streaming quality in Europe for 30 days by KevinEldon on Thursday March 19, 2020 @04:00PM (#22631070)
You should not knock Netflix at all. The request came from the European Commissioner for Internal Market and Services. Netflix helped out when they were asked to. If Europeans are upset about this decision they need to take it up with their elected officials not Netflix.
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Re:Netflix to cut streaming quality in Europe for 30 days by dependenttypes on Thursday March 19, 2020 @06:03PM (#22632229)
It was just a request. If any Netflix consumers have an issue with this they should take it with Netflix.
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Re:Netflix to cut streaming quality in Europe for 30 days by KevinEldon on Thursday March 19, 2020 @09:12PM (#22633560)
Yes, a request made on the behalf of all Europeans by their government.
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