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Re:Netflix lays off 300 more people – almost 3% of its staff by LanceH on Thursday June 23, 2022 @11:51PM (#31857625)
I sign up for 2 concurrent streams, then upgrade to 4 concurrent streams. My kids move out and now with the same account they tell me I can only use 1 stream in my 4 stream package...
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Re:Netflix lays off 300 more people – almost 3% of its staff by PragmaticPulp on Thursday June 23, 2022 @11:54PM (#31857645)
Netflix licenses and resells content not streams.

I think a lot of people in this thread are too fixated on the idea of “streams” and they have lost the plot. Netflix is a content producer and licensor. The streams are just a means to deliver that content.

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Re:Netflix lays off 300 more people – almost 3% of its staff by bawolff on Friday June 24, 2022 @07:33AM (#31860260)
That sounds like a netflix problem.

They advertise it in terms of streams. Whatever business arrangements they have with their providers is irrelavent to me as a consumer.

It'd be like if you went to an all you can eat buffet, and people started saying its not fair if you eat too much because the grocery store is charging the resturant per item not per person. It is totally irrelavent ti the person eating at the resturant.

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