After initiating a crackdown on password sharing, Netflix reportedly saw the highest number of daily sign-ups in the following four days.

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    1 year ago

    Most casual users of services aren’t tech-savvy enough to know how to pirate. It’s easy to forget that pirates are the minority when the seven seas are so popular.

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    1 year ago

    My problem is that some of the stuff I would download was for my kid. Since rarbg shut down, no new episodes of one of her favorite shows have become available. I’m forced to subscribe to a package with that channel so she can watch. Just a month or so ago, my wife and I were discussing scaling back our subscriptions even further, then rarbg shut down, and it seems like I’m going the other way now.

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    1 year ago

    They show how many new users signed up but leave out how many users cancelled, downgraded, or closed their accounts.

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    1 year ago

    The children aren’t paying for streaming services. asking your parents to pay for something will always be easier than pirating.