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Originally Posted by PsYcNeT
Of course that assumes two things:
a) Everyone who had a shared password ends up paying for a new account
b) The backlash to the policy doesn't end up with users cancelling
I think Netflix will find that b) vastly outweighs a) and they will have no means to backpedal on this one.
Expect a lot more cancellations.
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I don't think they would assume a). Presuming there is some incremental cost (server use/bandwidth) every time someone streams a show, however small, even if none of those people pay for a new account they come out ahead by reducing their costs without reducing revenue. Any that do subscribe put them further ahead. But if there is enough backlash that people who are paying start cancelling subscriptions that would be a different story, Wizards of the Coast/Hasbro recently found out the hard way about making your customers angry. I'm just not sure this policy would make many of the people that pay for the accounts that upset.