Netflix, believing it’s wasting a lot of profit sharing passwords, is testing a new concept in Honduras, Argentina, El Salvador, Guatemala and the Dominican Republic where you’re allowed to connect an outdoor TV from your home for two weeks, but after that, Netflix will block the service unless you pay to charge extra space. That price turns out to be around $2. 99 per month on top of what you already pay, per household.
Netflix detects “household” IP addresses, device identifiers, and account activity. So, you need to make sure that everything is on the same network and that you don’t use a VPN or anything like that to cause it in a house. The technique will allow viewing on mobile devices such as laptops, tablets and phones that will not require payment from another home.
It’s not that Netflix is wrong to need more people to subscribe instead of signing up with shared information, it’s that I wonder if this is the most productive use of the company’s time, resources and goodwill right now somewhat complicated for them.
Obviously, password sharing is rarely very unique to Netflix, or even streaming facilities in general (thanks for the father of WSJ login information!), however, you don’t see the Netflix competition orchestrating big plans to stop sharing like Netflix. Of course, the company can see some conversion point if other “homes” are added for a few dollars, which is in fact a bigger deal than the ordered value of $15 to $20, however, I’ve noticed other people say that philosophically, it doesn’t make much sense.
If the concept is that, say, a circle of relatives of six has to pay $26 for two of their children to live outdoors, the space should be added, why is there no reduction for, for example, a single user living alone, who still has to pay the full value of $20 for Netflix 4K even if there is only one user watching?I mean I wouldn’t expect a reduction, because that’s not how those things work, but Netflix really needs to push it the other way.
Netflix also ignores what turns out to be the main challenge it continues to dance with, namely that, overall, it’s much more expensive than most other streams, while arguably not necessarily better than its rivals in terms of overall output quality. But costs keep rising, and this crackdown on password sharing is just another way.
I just can’t believe it’s going to happen very well when any form ends up being implemented globally. We’ll see what happens, however, it just doesn’t seem to be the most productive way to move forward in those volatile times at Netflix. But they still appear. determined.
Fixed: a previous edition of this article said that verification in South American countries, while it is also in some Latin American countries. And an update has been made to reflect that consumers don’t want to pay on mobile devices outside the home.
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