Re:Netflix Loses 1M Users in Spain over Password Policing
by dmonitor on Wednesday April 26, 2023 @04:15PM
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As the copyright holders (not creators, mind you) realized the vast worth of their IP, licensing costs started to put the pressure on Netflix.
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Re:Netflix Loses 1M Users in Spain over Password Policing
by the_af on Wednesday April 26, 2023 @04:50PM
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I'm sure that's true, but then we've found the actual problem! And it's not viewers sharing their accounts with their families.
Re:Netflix Loses 1M Users in Spain over Password Policing
by tekknik on Thursday April 27, 2023 @01:37AM
(#35723702)
If more users have accounts then licensing costs are less of a burden to Netflix.
Re:Netflix Loses 1M Users in Spain over Password Policing
by the_af on Thursday April 27, 2023 @07:14AM
(#35726324)
Yes, but the real problem are rising licensing costs, not account sharing.
Re:Netflix Loses 1M Users in Spain over Password Policing
by tekknik on Thursday April 27, 2023 @09:21AM
(#35727672)
That has always been a burden. If customers want something then the person selling it sets the price.
Re:Netflix Loses 1M Users in Spain over Password Policing
by the_af on Thursday April 27, 2023 @11:43AM
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That's just a description for Netflix predatory tactics. Their narrative is "against account sharing" (which was historically allowed by them) but the problem is actually "rising licensing costs", so their actual enemy is not users but content owners.
The narrative is important. It's important to reframe this as Netflix going against the less powerful side.
Also, I celebrate this has already cost them 1 million users in Spain alone. I hope this backfires on Netflix globally.