>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.
Netflix really should have pushed for multidecade licensing deals with the IP holders.
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
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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.
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.