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by 88913527 1514 days ago
But you have the option to use it by maintaining the subscription. It had to be available any moment during the month you could choose to login and watch something. Someone had to keep the servers on, the content network, the authentication service when you logged in, etc.
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That's fair, you paid for the ability to watch Netflix any time during the month, and whether or not you actually do, the ability to do so was was given.
Was it, though? What if there was an outage when you wanted to watch?