[Justin_K]

So they should hand out subscriptions for free and go out of business? Should the actors and set crew take pay cuts for the free accounts? Would you be ok with paying double so others can have a free account? What do you propose is a reasonable way they can stay afloat and address freeloaders?

[monetus]

Why would you call them freeloaders? Netflix sold a number of streams, and now those streams are being restricted not by count but by kind.

If I gave some food away, and the restaurant I purchased it from called the recipient a free loader... I would have negative feelings about the restaurant such that a network effect would begin to take place after I kept telling people - just like this hn posting.

Edit: I guess you can argue that Netflix pricing is an insurance pool, where not always watching the streams you paid for goes into reducing the subscription cost (or raising profits). Having every subscriber let others use their downtime raises the subscription cost with that idea - but that is still contrary to years of their marketing.