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Re:Netflix lays off 300 more people – almost 3% of its staff by ABeeSea on Thursday June 23, 2022 @11:36PM (#31857522)
They implicitly allowed it for well over a decade because it was good for their growth. We had a friends group with multiple Wiis using the same Netflix account when I was in college.
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Re:Netflix lays off 300 more people – almost 3% of its staff by pavlov on Thursday June 23, 2022 @11:44PM (#31857571)
Microsoft implicitly allowed pirating Windows for over a decade, and for the same reason. Eventually they switched to an activation model when there was no growth left, just squeezing more out of the same userbase.

This is not a new trick.

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Re:Netflix lays off 300 more people – almost 3% of its staff by tyingq on Thursday June 23, 2022 @11:49PM (#31857610)
Even explicitly: https://twitter.com/netflix/status/840276073040371712?ref_sr...
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