Re:Netflix Loses 1M Users in Spain over Password Policing
by gcatalfamo on Wednesday April 26, 2023 @06:09AM
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You are also right, it is the scenario I hinted here:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35711055
Depending on the service/people sharing with, I personally witnessed both sharing costs of the single service and distributing full ownership among different services...
There are people who want to control all of them while absorbing costs, there are others who just want access.
Re:Netflix Loses 1M Users in Spain over Password Policing
by reportgunner on Thursday April 27, 2023 @08:01AM
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> If I wanted to, I can get Disney+ and regular TV, while I provide Netflix and Amazon Prime in return.
Reminds me of old days when all we had was dialup and we would pool our warez downloads with the community. I send you Seasons 6 & 7 of Buffy and I get the latest Season of Stargate in return. All burned on CDs or DVDs shipped via post.
Instead, we pool accounts. If I wanted to, I can get Disney+ and regular TV, while I provide Netflix and Amazon Prime in return. If all else fails, there's a Jellyfin server that gets regular use.
Everyone pays full price, but everyone only pays for one service, maybe two. The fragmentation of services is the real killer here. This wasn't a problem back when Netflix first came here and basically offered everything there was to offer until then Disney clawed back a whole bunch of its properties. €18 for Netflix would be fine if you weren't also expected to pay €17 for Amazon Prime and €19 for Disney+ and €14 for Paramount Plus and €15 for HBO Max (only available on some ISPs).
I'd pay full price for a streaming service that had everything and I think many people I know would too. I'd even be able to look past the stupid 720p limit (I run Linux so I cannot be trusted with the noisy 1080p encodes). Instead, my workflow now comes down to "check Netflix, if not found, download torrent".
These companies could've had the Spotify of video streaming services, which basically ended traditional music piracy, but instead wound up burning their version of Spotify down for a short term profit.