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> If you're sufficiently tech savvy, each person can run a VPN from their home so it doesn't look suspicious from the streaming service's end.

If I'm going to the trouble of exposing a VPN service over the internet for my friends, it's not so I can also pay for a streaming service.

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I think for polycules it makes sense to have such practices, as a filter for people who don't want to contribute/share even something as simple as a subscription, and to make sure that they are on the same page with the membership of the other partners: if they don't agree with sharing the password, they might not be a good fit. People in polycules share partners, which is something so intimate, most people wouldn't be ready to do it (me included). It takes a lot of work and communication to maintain not just one relationship to one person, but multiple ones to multiple people. Paying for a subscription that you share with others is comparatively easy. And obviously, for existing members, having additional people means more subscription services you can watch.