Netflix Will Prompt Subscribers to Pay for Users Outside Their Households in New Password Crackdown
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how does this work if you traveling and/or gotta vpn
KevCo
Bond's gun spoke once....
Yea so now i cant watch on my phone during work breaks? Or if i go see my friend in another state? shyts already too expensive for the content they have anyways.
R.E.N. Spells Ren
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But that’s not what happened with blockbuster. They were saddled with debt and not equip to make the investment in streaming.
Bryan Danielson
Jmare007 x Bryan Danielson x JLova = King Ghidorah
Oh this ain’t gonna be good…. For the few fam on my NF
It was Redbox I believe that they actually had the option to buy, and said no. When they had the resources. in 2000 Netflix was a 1 year old company, and offered Blockbuster a chance to buy them for only 50 Million they could have gotten in on streaming but they refused, and then the boom hit with redbox and they could no longer compete to that level. Today there is only 1 Blockbuster left, and that's in Oregon. To go from a mega giant to a local mom and pop-> A true rise and fall of a giant.
R.E.N. Spells Ren
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It was Netflix, but again, they were debt ridden. If they made that purchase, they wouldn’t have been able to afford to grow it into the Netflix we know today. Some other startup would’ve seized the moment flush with VC backing and no debt. It wasn’t a matter of blockbuster being unable to see the value in streaming. Poor business practices left them ill-equipped to capitalize on the impending market shift.
Debt did get to them, but not until 2008 where they had to declare bankruptcy. they had a seven year gap where they were still walking as the top in video entertainment. What killed them beyond anything else was the market crashing in 2008, but the 7 years before that, I cannot give them a pass. In Hindsight they should have refinanced their debt, and they would have been ok.
Cheesy
All Star
all Netflix does is take space on my devices, I'm on my parents account and that's the only reason I watch in the first place.They'd be better off making some good content again
This is what Netflix is doing. They're literally repeating the failed strategy of cable companies. Constantly nickel and diming as if there's no competition. They're already the most expensive and have a future of focusing on tween movies and reality TV shows. They got one more year to produce something worthwhile for the cost for me.
On top of that they raised prices.
They effectively raised prices twice here in NY in about 2 months. One month they started charging tax. Then the next was the actual price hike.
It's getting to the point where you start to actively think about whether you still want the account.
It's getting to the point where you start to actively think about whether you still want the account.
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Superstar
Don't Netflix users already pay a premium for the ability to have two people stream different things at the same time on one account even in the SAME household and wifi?
Tbh I actually love this for Netflix and encourage other streaming services to adopt this cutthroat mindset because they are quickly going to learn that people share accounts FOR A REASON and often that "reason" is far from simply being cheap. People do this shyt because THEY'RE fukkING BROKE.
I can't fukking wait for Netflix subscriptions and profits to rapidly decrease over this greedy shyt tbh.
Tbh I actually love this for Netflix and encourage other streaming services to adopt this cutthroat mindset because they are quickly going to learn that people share accounts FOR A REASON and often that "reason" is far from simply being cheap. People do this shyt because THEY'RE fukkING BROKE.
I can't fukking wait for Netflix subscriptions and profits to rapidly decrease over this greedy shyt tbh.