Netflix Gains Six Million Subscribers After Password Sharing Crackdown
Netflix earlier this year began cracking down on password sharing in the United States and other countries, and the effort has been successful, the...
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Set up an openvpn/wireguard server at a "home" with bandwith, and have family/friends route their Roku/streaming device route through a router with openvpn/wireguard client back to the same "home" .
Nah I'll just pirate shit instead.
My nas and Jellyfin ftw
I expected that would be the move a lot of people would go but Netflix actually saw a net gain with what was thought to be an unpopular move. This is actually a really fascinating potential case study on piracy where you'd think it would lead to lost customers, but despite driving some away it actually increased.
Apparently it only saw a gain in subscriptions in countries where the price of Netflix is really low, so there's more factors at work in this case I think.
I'm looking forward to a region by region break down once this gets fully rolled out.
You want to walk my dad through that?
Ha! Yeah I had to set this up for my parents. My Dad couldn't believe that I knew my IP address from memory!
laughs in third world country piracy
