Netflix may change policies to prevent customers from sharing accounts

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For a monthly fee of $7.99, Netflix customers have access to a wide variety of TV shows, movies and original content. More often than not, however, users frequently share accounts between family members and friends due to the company's relaxed policies. Michael Pachter of Wedbush Securities believes chief executive Reed Hastings should try to squeeze more profit from his 33.3 million customers by "cracking down on piracy" or even raising prices. The analyst claims that as many as 10 million people are accessing the service without paying, which is ultimately hurting Netflix's potential revenue.

 

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[Vanaraud]

This is just ridiculous that I can´t share my games\music\tv with family. When I pay for my cable EVERYBODY in my family can watch it, same goes with car, books etc. Why should be games\TV shows be any different. And giving up your passcodes to "friends" is not safe, never knows where it ends and gets hijacked.

 

Not that it matters to me much because can´t access any of amazon TV, netflix etc tv shows... Would gladly pay 8 dollars(not euros) to see all my favourite shows, but somehow company bosses tend to think that allowing people access the services from certain IP adresses(that means all other parts of world than US) wouldn´t increase profit as more people would pay to their bank account. Instead its good idea to start harassing current customers with ToS.

I don´t get it why IP adresses get blocked? Do non US IPs are alien origin and lead to world doom?