<story><title>Netflix, HBO and Cable Giants Are Coming for Password Sharers</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-11-08/netflix-hbo-and-cable-giants-are-coming-for-password-cheats</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>magashna</author><text>&amp;gt; “I feel like I’m beating my head against the wall,” Tom Rutledge, the chief executive officer of Charter Communications Inc., said during an earnings call last month. “It’s just too easy to get the product without paying for it.”&lt;p&gt;Boo hoo. All these companies thinking they can split all their content up and get people to pay for every single service are in for a (totally expected) surprise.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;ll share my plex server with friends and family long before I pay for more than 1-2 services.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>basch</author><text>I think the bigger issue than paying for multiple services is duplicate licensing.  If I sign up for DirecTV, Amazon Prime, and CBS how many shows am I triple licensing?  If all these companies want me to sign up for multiple services, there needs to be a way for them to pass &amp;quot;already licensed&amp;quot; information to each other, and pro-rate their bills accordingly.&lt;p&gt;ATT, Comcast, Disney, CBS already own almost all the historical content.  Id rather pay a small licensing fee to those 4 and then be able to watch their content on any platform, rather than deal with multiple middlemen that have CBS, Comcast, Disney, ATT  licensing costs built into their product price.  IF I select DirecTV&amp;#x2F;ATT as my &amp;quot;licensing manager&amp;quot; then any time I sign up for Disney+, Peacock+, CBS All Access, I want a discount off one of the two ends (would make more sense to give all my subscription info to DirecTV and get a DirecTV discount.  Then DirecTV can go to Disney and say &amp;quot;17% of our customers dont need to pay Disney licensing costs, weve adjusted our payment to you accordingly.)</text></comment>
<story><title>Netflix, HBO and Cable Giants Are Coming for Password Sharers</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-11-08/netflix-hbo-and-cable-giants-are-coming-for-password-cheats</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>magashna</author><text>&amp;gt; “I feel like I’m beating my head against the wall,” Tom Rutledge, the chief executive officer of Charter Communications Inc., said during an earnings call last month. “It’s just too easy to get the product without paying for it.”&lt;p&gt;Boo hoo. All these companies thinking they can split all their content up and get people to pay for every single service are in for a (totally expected) surprise.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;ll share my plex server with friends and family long before I pay for more than 1-2 services.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>criley2</author><text>The entitlement people feel to steal is always surprising. Especially on this board. I understand a lot of reddit is younger and irresponsible so piracy-as-the-norm is a popular trope, but among the engineers whose livelihoods depend on subscription models, we still promote service theft without so much as a hint of shame?&lt;p&gt;If the economics of a service don&amp;#x27;t make sense to you, then do not subscribe. But to turn around and steal from the engineers and artists who work to create these experiences is just indefensible. You are not entitled to television shows.</text></comment>