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Re:An update to paid sharing by spoonjim on Monday July 18, 2022 @10:58PM (#32147032)
You don't pay for two streams, you pay for two streams at one address in conformance with their Terms of Service. That of course has nothing to do with whether you pirate their content or not.
Re:An update to paid sharing by cptaj on Monday July 18, 2022 @11:36PM (#32147266)
This is the worst kind of right you can be.

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.

Re:An update to paid sharing by dylan604 on Tuesday July 19, 2022 @01:06AM (#32147748)
>That has been the de facto way to use netflix ever since its inception

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.

Re:An update to paid sharing by alexvoda on Tuesday July 19, 2022 @07:35AM (#32150119)
Netflix really should have pushed for multidecade licensing deals with the IP holders.
Re:An update to paid sharing by dylan604 on Tuesday July 19, 2022 @09:48AM (#32151381)
You say that like you know they didn't. Studios were never going to license their content for that long of a period. NEVER. They all knew what the ultimate plans were, and were not going to shoot thier plans full of holes by locking their content out of their own platforms.
Re:An update to paid sharing by causality0 on Tuesday July 19, 2022 @12:06AM (#32147424)
Even that's being generous. My expectation of service reflects the situation as it existed when I signed up: half the current price with about three times as many shows that I cared about watching.
Re:An update to paid sharing by Rebelgecko on Tuesday July 19, 2022 @03:06AM (#32148392)
Can you point me towards where that is in their TOS? I skimmed through and the only spacial restrictions I saw were

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."

Re:An update to paid sharing by adrr on Tuesday July 19, 2022 @12:47AM (#32147647)
It is members of a household not address. Very fuzz especially with people with fluid households.