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And they also lost a substantial amount of subscribers as of recent. That's what you get if you pull practices like these against your customers. This was to be expected though, especially since they also started to crackdown on people sharing their passwords with friends or family members that don't live in the same household. Meanwhile we have people that actually defend Netflix claiming people are 'stealing content'.

That's bullshit and you know it. How is that even considered theft? The consumer is paying, period. What if also the person that's being shared to is also paying for it to the owner of said account AKA splitting the bill? . I don't believe that their increasing of prices has any reasons to do with people sharing their password, it's simple greed. Their growth in the recent years (ESPECIALLY WITH COVID) has exploded enormously so once again it's unjustifiable. This sort of comparison has no relevance to this particular situation at all and to be quite frankly insulting. People aren't stealing, they're sharing.

Comparing a Netflix account to a bank or anything else in this particular context is just laughable. Certain things you better don't share with others (unless you really trust them or are family members). If you really are concerned about your account's safety, you might as well make an account that is simply dedicated to sharing and minimize payment information. And yes, Netflix SHOULD add in multi-factor authentication to increase security of people's accounts. With that said, at the end of the day it's still the responsibility of the account's owner if they want to share it or not.

The main reason that most of us will come down to is the fact that Netflix is being unnecessarily greedy. In the past they thought the sharing of passwords wasn't really a bad thing, so I kinda see a bit of hypocrisy on their end. Are they within their right to enforce these new rules, yes I think so but that doesn't mean it's a good thing. It will get backlash as we are seeing already so eventually we will see if they're going to back down and come up with something better. Whether this is about someone's entitlement, it doesn't matter. Even if it was, so what? Are people not allowed to enjoy entertainment on said platform?

I don't think it should be repeated, but practices like these will push people further into pirating content that said platform produces/offers. This is simply out of greed, nothing more. They have garnered a lot of money over the past two years so they can basically shut the hell up about that. I'd consider this to be more of a malpractice towards consumers at the end. Just let people share their accounts. If they're paying for it, then that's that. No need to increase the price for that. Life's already expensive so why need to make it more difficult for others to enjoy some entertainment. Oh and before they start with that this is simply out of security for the user, it's their responsibility. If their account gets hacked because of the sharing, it's a risk you are going to take regardless. It's up to the platform to implement PROPER security checks to ensure that it doesn't happen or at the very least minimize it.

Why not though? Don't you think it's a good idea to give people a fair chance to learn more about what they want to do in the future or do you simply not care for that at all? Labour type of jobs (some of them at least) can be automized if done properly. It's just that the world is too greedy to do so as per usual.

Ah how surprising for them not to release the anniversary edition for free for current owners of the Special Edition, with the exception for the next-gen upgrade. Bethesda is just milking the shit out of Skyrim just because of it's past popularity. The fact that the game still costs about 60 bucks on the Switch says a lot, but that's just mostly Nintendo as the prices are different on other platforms.

Damage control much? Such a perfect time for them to change their company's name and announce a whole bunch of shit like that scuffed looking 'VRChat/Second Life'

Yeah, why would it matter? Certain IP types are simply old-fashioned and create bullshit situations such as these. I see nothing wrong with what DBrand did or the other company mentioned in the article. DBrand was edgy in the way they wanted to bring attention to it but it just shows how annoying patents are. Who gives a fuck if someone just creates a faceplate or any other kind of customization and then sells it.

As always I find it hysterical that people defend a corporation for their 'IP', but this is just dumb asf. Sony is acting like such a bitch for not allowing other companies to create faceplate customization for their consoles. Whether it's for legal reasons like patents and stuff, It should still be regarded as something absurd and unacceptable.

So there are people here in this thread that find this more acceptable than those scalpers on eBay or other online markets... Ironic to say the least but also quite ignorant. Companies pulling of these sorts of practices should always be met with criticism nor should it be allowed to go mainstream.

Not exactly a great time to 'push' people to get new hardware with all these shortages right now. And no, before someone says they didn't know this was going to happen, you are wrong. They had plenty of time to figure that part out.

This honestly is one of the least important things to worry about. It should be more about whether the OS is stable and more performant. Design choices like these can be solved, but I wouldn't say this bothers me or anyone else for that matter by a lot.

Facebook corp should be broken up with Instagram and Whatsapp becoming independent once again considering Facebook has become a monopoly.

What do you expect? Facebook is one of the worst social media platforms out there for a whole lot of reasons.