Why students? Well, as a parent of two. that don't support themselves yet, I really don't understand why I should have to pay an additional "fee" on top of their already overpriced product just because they live away from home a few months out of a year. No matter, I've cancelled already as this really just helped me make the decision.
IDK Prime is the same way. It only allows two 18 and up in an Amazon Household.
They clearly don't enforce this at all. My family shares with three different shipping addresses and saved credit cards for at least three different people.
If your father is watching on his phone at the beach when he normally doesn't connect to your network at your house they can reasonably assume you've shared your login credentials with your father. Would they block him immediately? IDK but that is a case of when he is another person.
Are you talking about Amazon Household or just where someone logins into your account and purchases something from it (which is essentially password sharing)?
According to Netflix they don't gather GPS information
When did I say it was a plight against students? Your reading WAY to into a very simple comment,
Uh because you said this:
We all log into my dad's account, just one profile.
Yeah that's just password sharing.
You asked why should there be an exception for college students
You asked why college students should still be on their parents Netflix account and I explained why some people feel that way.What does that have to do with a voluntary streaming service? No one is saying a parent can't pay for their kid's Netflix account on their behalf (which assumedly the parent is paying for many other things if this is a student without income themselves). IF it is truly THAT big of an issue. Really..what is stopping a parent, who says their kid is so dirt poor they cannot afford it themselves, to not just fork over the money themselves. At that point it's just the parent using their student to fight some principle value...
This isn't a necessity and there are plenty of more serious things where you have to split off despite being a dependent on taxes
IP addresses are provided by the service provider. So you have a different IP address when you're on a cellular network than when you're on your home wifi, even if you're both home at the time. It would get even more difficult to track using a VPN. My point, is that this is a much ado about nothing situation -just my opinion. Netflix can gather all the info they want and make reasonable assumptions till the sky falls ...but enforcing this is going to be a mess for them. I don't believe they have any actual intention of doing that. This is a money grab ...if 10% of their subscriber base(23,000,000 people) share their password, and 10% of them are honest and pay the $8, that's an extra $18,000,000 per month of "profit". I'm guessing their actual number sharing is even higher than 10%. For the record, I've already paid my $8....
I'm not disagreeing that people don't want to pay anymore but I think that's really it. All the other stuff is just stretching something out to rationalize it.
I guess my point is that Amazon doesn't really care to crack down on password sharing like Netflix is trying to.
For sure I got your point, it was just your comment to me was about something I wasn't talking about. I was talking about the limitation to 18 up people connected to one's account. Amazon doesn't allow more than two 18 and up members to link accounts to be considered a shared Amazon household, it doesn't matter the IRS tax dependency of others nor the educational status (topics of prior discussion).
Thanks!
