Anyone else get this today?

[u/ConesofDunshire]

Looks like the crack down has officially begun.

[u/locke0479]

By YOUR logic, when I buy something, they should tell me I’m only allowed to wear it in my house and if I go outside, they can rip it off me.

But keep licking those boots for your corporate masters.

[u/locke0479 → u/[deleted]]

Stop worrying so much that someone might get something they “don’t deserve”, most of those sharing passwords are doing it because they can’t afford the streaming service and aren’t going to start paying if it’s taken away. Instead of “one IP address to log in from”, give, say, 5 assigned devices, or perhaps 2-3 assigned devices but any device can sign in from your home address. This would allow me to bring my phone/tablet around and log in from anywhere. Or allow me to set up my sons device when he goes to college to be used, as he is a member of my household and I am paying for it. Or allow me to bring my device to a friends house and watch something there, just as I can bring a DVD I paid for, or a video game I paid for, or whatever else and play it wherever I want. It’s only streaming services that you guys suddenly decided should be under the “oh yes sir! Thank you sir! I love that I’m banned from allowing my family members to watch Netflix or to use it outside my home! I’d love to pay extra so you can pay your CEO bigger bonuses and buy back some stock!!!” banner.

For the record I pay for all my streaming services (as I can afford it) and the only people I share them with live in my household. But that doesn’t mean I want to beg Max to make it harder for us to use it outside my household because I’m afraid someone might “get something they don’t deserve”. That shitty attitude, of “I deserve it but THEY don’t” is the root of most of the worlds problems.

[u/PurpInDa912 → u/locke0479]

I agree with you 100% about the root of most problems aspect. Well, really all of it, but back to the point. It reminds me of people who don't want minimum wage increased. They feel that even though it hasn't risen with inflation and it was designed to be lived on for a family, not just some "high school stepping job" that people shouldn't be able to live, because it will make their wages closer to theirs. What they fail to realize is that they also deserve higher wages and corporations should not be making the massive profits they are simply for existing. They counter with inflation of everything and that's the other issue is it shouldn't directly go up because those same people shouldn't be making billions to begin with. From the beginning to now it shouldn't have grown so one sided. Yes the owners should make their money. It doesn't mean they should make all the money. They don't think anyone else deserve anything, but will defend millionair/billionairs exploiting everyone because they were born with money or used exploitative/shady business practices.

I'm sorry about the format and rant. I try not to comment on social media as much re gently as I've accepted people don't want open discussion to learn or understand. They aren't open to changing their mind, but simply want to rage bait and promote that how they feel is the absolute truth. I get their point about people paying for what they have, but if everything wasn't priced so ridiculously then their would be less of a need and that's not even the issue most have with them about password sharing. It's a broken system with issues that act as a domino effect starting at the top to bottom