Netflix... Location sharing rules hits Canada.

[Doug Eastick]

https://about.netflix.com/en/news/an-update-on-sharing

Well, Netflix is rolling out the new rules on password sharing .... In Canada and other places.

I'll let you know how it goes.  I have one device at a different location (cottage), plus 2 adult children at their own places. Kinda pisses me off they want more money for remote users, even though I'm already paying for the premium package and 4 simultaneous streams.

I may have to rely more on BetaMax.

/Doug
eas...@mcd.on.ca

[PGage]

 Will be most interested in your experience. I still am not clear how they are differentiating between me watching from a hotel TV in a different state, or from my iPad in a different state (which they say they allow) and my daughter watching from her own TV in a different state?

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[Adam Bowie]

I agree that it might be complicated to legislate. 

On the one hand, you might just use an IP address and allow hotel/rental/remote watching for finite amounts of time (say 30 days), before you assume that the viewer was actually "resident" at this non-"primary" address. But I easily think of instances of people who work on the road pretty much all the time, or perhaps spend weekdays in one location and weekends in another, and so on. They might try to do this on the basis of different users on an account not using the service simultaneously in multiple locations. But I can easily think of circumstances where one person works remotely for periods of time away from other household members, perhaps for weeks or months at a time. Are they going to be forced into multiple Netflix accounts?

And those "extra member" fees aren't super-cheap either.

(And why is there a €2 difference between Portugal and Spain? I guess because the Spanish catalogue is much better than Portuguese language one...)

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[PGage]

My daughter chooses to believe the whole thing is an empty threat, like a liquor store that puts up a broken video camera in an attempt to deter shoplifting. I’m not convinced, but would like to start reading stories about how many subscribers in Peru (or wherever they have piloted this already) have been kicked off.

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[Doug Eastick]

I have yet to see any email from Netflix, or any notifications on my devices in my house.

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[Adam Bowie]

I would guess that in truth they'll start with the most egregious cases - people using the same user in multiple places very far apart - and slowly work down the list.

They'll go carefully because they don't want to actively *lose* subscribers, but I'm pretty sure they're going to do something. I confess that I share an account with a relative - I'm the person who's paying - and although this hasn't launched yet in the UK, I have had an email letting me know that user logins can now be transferred. So watch histories and so on don't have to be lost if that's the reason that someone isn't moving their account.

Incidentally, how many times have you stayed at, say a rental place, and found that the Netflix smart TV app was already logged into someone else's account? And perhaps you didn't feel the need to log out...  I bet that use case is going to cause some perhaps unexpected issues!

Adam

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