Comments by "SmallSpoonBrigade" (@SmallSpoonBrigade) on "Netflix Cracking Down HARD on Password Sharing" video.

The Napster lawsuits were one of the dumbest things that an industry has ever done. The year that Napster went down was the biggest year they ever had for selling music, and it pretty much just cratered by comparison afterwards. I've got somewhere around 150 albums, but hardly any of them from periods of time when I wasn't using file sharing software.
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That's more or less what I think is going to happen, this is going to accelerate the number of cancellations. They do have some good stuff, but they don't have that much good stuff, you could probably cancel the service 10 months out of the year and watch the stuff you like before canceling again. So rather than getting 1 account for 12 months they'd get 2 accounts for 4 months or so total. We'll just have to see how this turns out, but I don't think it's going to do anything other than push those folks that are sort of interestedish out.
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Yes, and there are plans with multiple screens that you're forced to sign up for if you want higher definition service. The real issue is that they're already charging too much for what they're providing and too much of the programming that they had been carrying is now on other services. They do have the legal right to crack down on this, but I wonder how many people will even keep subscribing as there's probably a lot of people that use somebody else's password, to watch a couple programs from time to time who would never otherwise pay to see the shows or just wait until the license moved to a different provider.
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The difference is that they've mostly saturated the market and there are more competitors now than there were then. I read that the same way that I read MS and Adobe basically not filing suit against home users that were pirating their software. Few of those people would have otherwise paid and having more copies increases the value to the commercial users that do have to pay for their copies. (And do get the crap sued out of them if they're caught pirating it)
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I recently bought a Synology NAS and put a couple of my own HDD in it. I can stream my own videos over the internet to wherever I am and to whomever I like. It is a bit of an expense to set up, but there's a ton of DVDs that can be bought second hand and ripped and copied to the device. With Netflix being somewhere between $10 and $20, it is economical before too long, especially if you start with just the movies you already own and add from there.
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I suspect that it's probably the companies that are licensing the IP more than anybody else. They're probably pushing for higher per account fees in order to make up for the extra people watching beyond those in the same household.
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I assume that they look at when and where the streaming is going on over time. If you do that once, it's probably not an issue, but if it's regularly streaming from different locations either simultaneously or with a short turn around time that they'd know before too long.
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