[HN Gopher] Netflix cracks down on password sharing, but early e...
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       Netflix cracks down on password sharing, but early efforts in Peru
       are a mess
        
       Author : nixass
       Score  : 6 points
       Date   : 2022-05-31 22:11 UTC (50 minutes ago)
        
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       | warning26 wrote:
       | It's going to be really interesting when they roll this out
       | worldwide.
       | 
       | I'd say Netflix execs are delusional if they think they'll be
       | able to get a net positive to revenue out of this change.
        
         | gnicholas wrote:
         | They'll surely lose some subscribers in the short run, but it's
         | not clear to me that it'll be a net loser in the long run.
         | There are people who share accounts because they are very
         | price-sensitive, and they'd be more likely to bail and find
         | other ways to get content (competitors that aren't cracking
         | down, or pirating). But there are also people who share
         | accounts for historical reasons, like grown children and their
         | parents. Those folks may have more than enough disposable
         | income to have their own accounts, or pay a surcharge for
         | having a joint account.
         | 
         | The question is: what percent of NFLX's multi-household
         | subscribers will (1) quit, (2) pay a surcharge, or (3) get a
         | separate account? My guess is there aren't a lot in (1), most
         | are in (2), and there are very few in (3). I imagine they're
         | trying to learn from their experience with this pilot program
         | so they can figure out an appropriate surcharge.
        
         | samstave wrote:
         | Perhaps its not about "revenue"...
         | 
         | Perhaps its more about more granular tracking of human
         | attention and relationship matrices.
         | 
         | Which can then be further analyzed.
         | 
         | Imagine that they have the ability to see who is sharing what
         | general sentiments - based on the fact that they share a media
         | library of cultivated cultural memes and awareness which is the
         | programming of thought as is the basis of the SpellBinding
         | aspects of the Holly Wood tree (need to know you druidics
         | there)
         | 
         | Perhaps, if you tighten down the net - you get to see where
         | thought on topics coalesces and where relationships in
         | sentiment reside.
         | 
         | Perhaps... we are, even unbeknownst to the coporations who
         | provide access to such entanglemts, are being measured,
         | catalougued and listed amongst those who share a certain
         | predilection toward resistences...
         | 
         | Resistences are to a much more esoteric idea.
         | 
         | while we fall to the mundanity of life of consumption, we only
         | ever look down.
         | 
         | Like a dog, seeking the floor for scraps whilst the masters
         | eat...
         | 
         | Media is the scraps. we are the dogs...
         | 
         | We fight over the scraps.
         | 
         | as the masters gorge on profit of our tribulations.
         | 
         | but those profits have flattened... even though every single
         | scrap has been seasoned, and fired and glazed in a meticulous
         | recipe of deceit, desire, and lust.. perfect for the dogs to
         | lick, bite and fuck over.
         | 
         | A new way of netting from that attention. to phish it in, to
         | harvast.
         | 
         | prophet.
         | 
         | We go now... on every level to the pre-verse. Before it was a
         | sound thought.
         | 
         | Today, you. Tomorrow ME!
        
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