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davidw said:

sandor said:

tommikele said:

22july2013 said:

My opinion is that Netflix could make more money by lowering their monthly rate but prohibit account sharing (simultaneous streaming.) I would probably subscribe if they did that. If I had a family of twelve, I would probably like the account sharing surcharge, but I don't.

Just for testing, they could introduce an account type that was cheaper but blocked sharing. See how popular it would be.

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Charge each user of a stream. If your account has four streams you pay four times $X then who cares who is using them. Fifth person tries to sign on, they can't. One price per stream.

This is, in fact, how Netflix charges - an amount of $$ per month gets you a certain number of simultaneous streams @ a certain quality level.

Why does Netflix need to make themselves the arbiter of family & existence locations as well?

I rent a car with 4 passenger seats.
The rental car company doesn't dictate to me who is allowed to sit in them.

That' not right. When you rent 1 car, all your passengers have to go where you go. And in most cases, only you can drive the car, unless you pay extra for another driver. But there is still only 1 car. That's would be like having 1 stream and all your guest sitting on the sofa in front of the TV, have to watch what you watch and someone else can only watch what they want to watch, after you're done.

But if you pay for 2 streams, someone on the sofa (like your son) that don't like want you're watching, can go watch something else in another room that have a TV. Or go to a friends home and watch something else on a mobile device or computer logged on to your account. What your son is not suppose to do, is log on to his friend's TV, with your account.   

Paying for 2 streams would be like you renting 2 cars. But when you pay for 2 streams, it's not twice as much. When you rent 2 cars, it would most likely be close to double the cost of renting 1 car. That would be like paying for two 1 stream accounts.

tommikele said:

22july2013 said:

My opinion is that Netflix could make more money by lowering their monthly rate but prohibit account sharing (simultaneous streaming.) I would probably subscribe if they did that. If I had a family of twelve, I would probably like the account sharing surcharge, but I don't.

Just for testing, they could introduce an account type that was cheaper but blocked sharing. See how popular it would be.

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Charge each user of a stream. If your account has four streams you pay four times $X then who cares who is using them. Fifth person tries to sign on, they can't. One price per stream.

ronn said:

Netflix and others need to come up with a scheme similar to the legacy newspapers online access: create a limited number of free connections with a discount for new accounts and a reward for the account sharing the info.

I know there will be a lot of whining about this plan. But Netflix (and eventually others) have to do this. Too many are sharing with others outside of their households. Had a cousin that shared the account with her daughters when they went off to school. Who shared it with their friends and/or S/Os. My cousin wound up locked out of her own account. She had to call CS, reset the password and won't share her account with anyone now that the daughters have moved out.

CampBobcat said:

Any thoughts on using a Mac Studio as a Server for small business?