What's the difference between 3 kids and a parent watching 4 streams in a single house, and 3 adult kids at college watching on their parent's 4-streams account?
It was one thing when the 'household' thing was a requirement by antiquated license agreements.
The ONLY reason my family still has Netflix is that it is partially subsidized by our family T-Mobile plan.
This is not going to go well for them, and they know it, which is why they are trialing it in non-US territories first.
When are large companies going to learn that there's an inflection point at which continuing to chase quarterly growth for shareholder expectations crosses over into a landmine field of short term optimizations at long term consequence?
We still pay for Disney+ and Binge as they still make it easy to use and have the content we want.
I don't mind paying for stuff. I do mind them squeezing us for every drop they can. It's their prerogative as a company, of course, but if they make it harder than pirating their content, then pirating their content is how it will be for a lot of people.
Especially considering, at least for our household, Netflix does not provide enough value in terms of content we want to watch to be worth paying extra for.
Is there really enough anticipation of a single movie to want to set it up ahead of time? Or is there something else that makes it great?
I don't track new releases, they just show up on my Plex when I have them. It's convenient and I don't have to go looking for them.
You can allow requests to be automatically filled, or require approval.
People do pay for two streams and expect to watch them anywhere. That has been the de facto way to use netflix ever since its inception and it also goes for other streaming services.
This is the expectation of service. Nobody cares about terms of service.
The pedantic me wants to remind you that the original way to watch Netflix was to have DVDs delivered to your home. That was the original inception. By developing their backend so that streaming on the internet became so ubiquitous, they dug their own grave. All of the studios got to sit back and watch (popcorn included) as Netflix paved the way by doing all of the expensive R&D, find all the gotchas in delivering video to shitty home connections, mobile, etc. Once it was stable and established, all of the studios said thanks, hired people away, and built their own. They then took their ball and went home to their own platforms. Meanwhile, Netflix has pretty much been thrown a haymaker leaving them in standing knockout.
a) No playing content in public in a way that would be interpreted as a public
b) Most (but not necessarily all) of your consumption should be in the same country as your billing address. They seem to implicitly support not just streaming outside of your home, but even outside of your home country:
"You may access Netflix content primarily within the country in which you have established your account and only in geographic locations where we offer our service and have licensed such content."