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To boot everyone off my netflix account?

123 replies

Crazyoldmaurice · 12/11/2019 20:50

Had a long shitty day and feeling rather rotten with a sore throat. Finally got my 4&2 year old in bed and have been looking forward to keep watching unbelievable on netflix but lo and behold theres too many devices currently watching!

My inlaws are watching only fools and horses in bed on the iPad (fil has the bloody boxset on dvd) and either my mum/bro/sister are watching The Sinner. I feel bad for my inlaws as they are both poorly with chest infections but ffs, I bet if my mum is watching shes bloody fallen asleep.

Aibu to boot them all off so I can watch it?

OP posts:
FraglesRock · 12/11/2019 22:29

We've go the 4 device package and still can't get on it sometimes.
Do I have to change the password to boot people off?

JacksonPillock · 12/11/2019 22:35

Yeah I would have absolutely zero guilt about this. It's so bloody cheap, if they really want it they can just get their own subscription!

Also, password sharing is against their T&Cs and in some countries is illegal (I know it is in the USA, dunno about the UK). If you're still doing it when they eventually and inevitably implement the software to detect it, I imagine you'll end up losing your account.

StreetwiseHercules · 12/11/2019 22:38

Netflix is amazing value for £7 per month. We all use it in our house but it annoys me when I hear of people giving their logins to other people outside of their own home. House tight-fisted can people get?

Pay for it so they can keep making more great content.

whywhywhy6 · 12/11/2019 22:39

Boot ‘em.

GetUpAgain · 12/11/2019 22:42

I'd text them and say in 10 minutes you will be watching something on netflix so just a heads up that they may not be able to connect.

Bellaxx8 · 12/11/2019 22:45

Just upgrade, it’s only a few £ more and if your that bothered about the extra £3 ask them for it.

AnnaFiveTowns · 12/11/2019 22:52

Get a family subscription and tell them that's their Christmas present.

littlehappyhippo · 12/11/2019 22:56

@Crazyoldmaurice

If this going to keep happening, then tell them you are cancelling it, and change your password.

If you want to, you could cancel it, and then re-join. (You can do this as there is no contract.) We actually use my brother and SIL's but pay them £12 a quarter (so like £4 towards it every month.)

I think they have the one that is £11 or £12 a month, the top rated one (HD and up to 4 users.) So we are paying a third of the bill and we don't mind at all.

SIL's sister (and her sister's partner,) AND their mother use it but they don't pay anything towards it. I don't care, me and DH still pay.

We rarely seem to have problems getting on it. If we did, or if it comes to a point when users aren't allowed to let other people use it, we will open our own account.

GunpowderGelatine · 12/11/2019 23:02

I can't believe some people don't stump up £6 a month but expect to leech off other people's accounts. I would be so embarrassed to ask for access to someone else's Netflix rather than pay

Kick em off

JacksonPillock · 12/11/2019 23:31

I can't believe some people don't stump up £6 a month but expect to leech off other people's accounts

I'm also surprised because mumsnet users in general are usually quite righteous about theft and stealing.

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Crazyoldmaurice · 12/11/2019 23:46

I managed to keep mashing the "retry" button and it let me back in to watch a few episodes, I'll be changing the password tomorrow so I cant carry on watching the series when I want to.

@StreetwiseHercules
@JacksonPillock

Honestly I dont feel even a tiny bit bad about sharing out my password with my mum and inlaws; I've definitely done my bit to help Netflix keep making great content in the way of featuring heavily in a 12 episode docu due to air early next year. Now that I'm actually thinking about it, it's a bit shitty of netflix to not have offered something in the way of a free subscription anyway.

Also if I got my account removed for sharing my password I'd just create another and then not share the details again. I often do watch netflix at my inlaws/mums so its not like I dont ever watch it from those IP addresses. They didnt actually ask for the password etc; i set it up myself and they've just used it when I'm not there.

OP posts:
Antigon · 12/11/2019 23:56

I'm also surprised because mumsnet users in general are usually quite righteous about theft and stealing.

.....

It's not stealing. There's very little understanding of how broadcast media works on this thread. As if Netflix, Now TV don't know and expect their customers to share their log in details.

cstaff · 13/11/2019 00:10

My friend was using her bf's Netflix login a few years ago. She broke up with him and before she got home their Netflix was cut off. She was very unimpressed. Very funny - not really sure what she was expecting Grin

JacksonPillock · 13/11/2019 00:11

It's not stealing. There's very little understanding of how broadcast media works on this thread. As if Netflix, Now TV don't know and expect their customers to share their log in details

It's the equivalent of stealing because it's stopping the people who are given the password from paying for the service.

Of course Netflix know about it... Just like Tesco know and expect shoplifters. That doesn't make it okay to shoplift from Tesco does it?

ActualFemale · 13/11/2019 00:30

I pay for the two device plan as dh and I watch it in an evening and dd likes to watch an hours tv before bed. She was once staying at my Mums for a few days and I logged in on a games console she keeps there so she could watch a bit of Lucifer and forgot all about it until a few weeks later a third profile appeared and I couldn't watch anything. My brother was using my Netflix and preventing me from using it myself, I gave him the boot and he kicked off. I wouldn't mind if he offered to pay the extra for a third device plan but the cheeky sod expected me to wait til his program had finished. If he had t have got arsey with me he'd still be accessing my Netflix now,

Do I have to change the password to boot people off?

Changing password alone didn't work for me, I went into options or account setting and selected an option to log out on all devices.

littlehappyhippo · 13/11/2019 00:31

@JacksonPillock

You clearly have no understanding about Netflix.

The OP's family who are using her netflix account are not STEALING anything.

Anyone who is using anyone else's netflix account, will have been given an 'additional user' account (with their name on it in a little box on the screen.) So they can access it on their laptop, their TV, their computer, their smartphone, or even the library or anywhere else that has the internet!

The account holder will have created the additional usernames, and allowed permission. They will also have given the 'additional usernames' the account password to enable them to log in and use their netflix account.

Nobody can STEAL someone else's netflix, (or view it for free!) They would have to have been given access to the account, the password, and (as I said,) an additional username.

I think you need to look in the dictionary at the meaning of the word THEFT.

The OP's family are literally doing nothing wrong. SHE is allowing them to use it (for free!)

Dilligaf81 · 13/11/2019 00:39

Yep kick them off.... Unless you are my Best mates ex(abusive, cheating, gaslighting ex) then best just leave it as is.

Nokeysnoentry · 13/11/2019 00:40

Get them a subscription for their Christmas present.

ActualFemale · 13/11/2019 00:44

Just had a go and changing password while it was being used on two devices already and it hasn't booted anyone off.

Had to log into Netflix on a browser and go to account settings and then "log out on all device". Bitter out on all devices and have to re login (which they won't be able to do if you don't give them the new password)

I don't think it's mean or ungenerous to expect to use the service your paying for, and I don't think Op should have to pull out extra to cover more devices so that she can watch something she's already paying to watch. The people piggybacking on her account should maybe offer £3 a month or whatever the increase is to add an extra device so that the person paying the bill and kindly giving them free Netflix isn't being prevented from accessing it herself.

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MyBlueMoonbeam · 13/11/2019 00:53

Nobody can STEAL someone else's netflix, (or view it for free!) They would have to have been given access to the account, the password, and (as I said,) an additional username.

Not true unfortunately - my account was hacked into twice recently due to a Yahoo Mail data breach Angry

AFairlyHardAvocado · 13/11/2019 00:58

My favourite thing my horrible ex ever said to me was in a text he sent after we split due to his repeated cheating complete with "you're mental" denials:

"I can't believe you hate me so much you've locked me out of Netflix."

😂😂😂

Makes me laugh so much now when it pops into my head. It's less than a tenner a month, surely his dignity was worth paying that for but apparently not!

BasiliskStare · 13/11/2019 00:59

Well I would say mother staying in the house counts as household - but what I would do is go up and say " are you asleep Mum, because I want to watch the television . "

I am not a media lawyer but your own mother / relatives in your own house you should be able to say - can we get a space for me to watch what I want to for a short while

JacksonPillock · 13/11/2019 01:01

Well I would say mother staying in the house counts as household

OP mentioned her in-laws, mum, brother and sister having access. It's possible they're all living together in one household, along with OP's husband and 2 kids, but I doubt it!

VanGoghsDog · 13/11/2019 01:03

They would have to have been given access to the account, the password, and (as I said,) an additional username.

This isn't true. My bf logs into his account on my TV when he's at my house, and when he's not here I do too, on his profile. He offered to set me up a profile but I couldn't see the point.

I can't see how it's stealing though. Four devices can use it, why do Netflix care which four at any one time? It might be a breach of the terms, but that doesn't make it stealing.

If he didn't set it up on my TV I wouldn't buy it, I never have in the past, so Netflix aren't losing anything by me using his.