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Netflix says people just kind of rolled over and accepted the password sharing crackdown (www.avclub.com)

submitted 1 year ago by L4s@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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Netflix says people just kind of rolled over and accepted the password sharing crackdown::Netflix subscriptions are up almost 6 million this quarter, suggesting we're all just too exhausted to fight this stuff

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[–] MrLuemasG@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You should look into hosting a Plex server for her. My brother set one up after I cancelled our Netflix and our tech-illterate mother loves it. The only change for her was moving from clicking on the Netflix icon on her TV to clicking on the Plex icon.

[–] deranger@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

This is the way to go if you really want to be a pro piracy advocate.

Most people can’t be bothered with the complexities of torrents or codecs. Luckily that’s my shit, and I put together a 4x16TB NAS setup and started hosting a Plex instance for family initially, then added some coworkers. It’s a fun little hobby, and my users are able to save on streaming services.

Also, I’ve found a majority of users really don’t care much about quality, so I’m able to serve up multiple streams on only 40Mbps upload without noticing any network slowdowns.