To boot everyone off my netflix account?

[Crazyoldmaurice]

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?

@Progress2019 hope you told her where to to!

Not sure what quite you’re referring to but if you read Netflix’s statement you will see they say ‘We’re looking at the situation. We’ll see those consumer-friendly ways to push in the edges of that’ but adds that it it does not yet have ‘big plans’ about this

Basically, they’re going to do nothing, it’s a holding statement

How you extrapolate that into they’re going to clamp down on password sharing is laughable!

"Laughable"

Why is it impossible to have a civil conversation on mumsnet? Is everyone a teenager here? For god's sake.

I extrapolated it from the numerous articles I read by industry experts on media conferences and interviews, etc. Wasn't difficult. I just googled "netflix password sharing" and basically every single result that comes up is saying they are going to start doing more about it in the near future.

Anyway, this is all getting OTT and tiresome now. My original post simply stated that:

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

(Drawing an equivalence between the two, not stating that it IS stealing or not, for those of you desperate to argue about semantics).

The T&Cs was just to show that it IS against the rules and I stated that clearly Netflix DO lose money from password sharing, which I also maintain – it would be stupid to try to deny that.

So my original posts stand. It is against the rules that you signed up to and it takes money away from the company. The fact that so many people are trying to argue that it's ok to do it just proves my point: which was simply that I find it surprising that so people on here seem to think it's ok, despite the fact that most mumsnet threads on similar issues go the other way.

You need to boot them out, then have a chat with them about upgrading your subscription and getting them to pay towards it.

Everybody I know that shares an account between different families pays half each , as it makes it cheaper for everyone.

YANBU when you can't watch something that you pay for.

If there has been surreptitious password sharing then boot off whoever is using it without permission.

Apart from breaking the rules, the least your ILs and parents can do is ask when they want to watch Netflix is if you have enough screens available for a certain amount period of time.

Change the password. They can buy their own Netflix. YouTube is also great for movies and clips.

Story time: my dh lent our Amazon prime to some friends of his as "they are here only for a few months" and they added HBO to our subscription without our approval. And didn't tell him anything. They would watch a few minutes of hbo movies and then check anothet movie out - not even a full movie.
I realized 3 weeks later and of course we got stuck with the $15.99 per month charge.
Friends were removed inmediately.
He won't lend any streaming services ever again.

Don't overthink it and boot them off!

YANBU, obviously!

What is Unbelievable?

YANBU!! I do this regularly. I pay for it, and DD often gives the password to her friends as their parents don't or won't pay for it!
Don't feel bad, they can set up their own accounts in minutes!

I told my dh nobody touches our disney+ subscription. We got so many requests already it is sickening

@JacksonPillock

Why is it impossible to have a civil conversation on mumsnet? Is everyone a teenager here? For god's sake

Tbf you started with the ‘HTH’. That’s very passive aggressive and teen-esq.

I just googled "netflix password sharing" and basically every single result that comes up is saying they are going to start doing more about it in the near future.

But they don’t say that because that would be misleading. They say Netflix are looking at it.

I am sorry your account was hacked, but that's not really the same as the OP's situation. She has given full permission for her family to use it. Ergo, like with everyone else who gives permission, her family areNOT STEALING!!!

@littlehappyhippo where in my post did I SAY THEY WERE 🙄

Set up another account then multiple users can watch at the same time.

I live in the NE, I found out people in Birmingham, Wales and Brighton we're watching it regularly (I blame university student stepdd!), I booted them all out and changed the password. I wouldn't bother normally but I wanted to watch!.

DO IT!

This was last night, I suppose you already made your mind up, lol

My parents are the worst. They pay for non of my subscriptions (Amazon or Netflix). They also used to use the Now TV one and when I went to cancel it my mum was so angry as she was watching a series

Why wouldn't you want to share it? My DCs (adult, not at home) share everything with us. One pays for Netflix with 4 users and we all use it. She is always recommending stuff for me to watch (just finished Daughters of Destiny, I really recommend it, it was fantastic).
We then have long chats about what we've watched, it's a bonding thing.
Other DC has Amazon Prime and we all use it for parcels to be delivered to our different addresses.

I'm generous with my time and other things with my kids, I'd be very hurt if they wouldn't share a Netflix with us as they aren't struggling money wise. Isn't that what families do.... share??

Antigon I’m a coward, so I ignored her.

I sometimes feel we’re the only ones who pay for Netflix. It’s not that people can’t afford it either. The kids friends proudly tell me their phone contracts are £75 a month, like I should be impressed.

I have a friend who couldn't watch tv& was due to move, so I gave her my log ins. She moved, and I suddenly couldn't watch. She had 2 devices logged in. AND had changed the name of one of the "accounts". I just logged her off everything & changed the log ins. Never said a word. CF. It's £8 & she's loaded!

I had a text from my daughters ex boyfriends mum asking for the password after we changed it (I’d never even spoken to her before)

Now that is the height of CFery!

I'm assuming you gave them the password, in which case having a 2 screen account and having 3 people with the password is unreasonable, how are they supposed to know others are using it?

We have a 4 screen account between 4 "people" with the strict instructions that they only ever watch 1 device at a time. Never had an issue in years.

We gave our Netflix password to my MIL she then gave it to my SIL and we couldn't watch anything but they weren't contributing to the monthly payment so we changed the password. We were then asked if we changed the password and they needed the new one, we just said it wouldn't work for us either so we cancelled it. We didn't of course.

Though the terms are odd, I mean, going by the letter, a guest in your own house couldn't watch it as they are not technically part of your household

Not really considering "household" means the physical house and devices in it not the humans.

Well, since you think I'm obtuse I'm not sure why you'd ask me that 😘

I was more asking if you'd read something somewhere about them going bust, I wasn't looking to tap into your clearly prevalent market industry wisdom 😘

But I'd see you've oddly made up the unfounded claim they're going bust, thank goodness!

YANBU we use ds1's as not worth paying ourselves, but wouldn't do it to make it over his limit. If others are on we'll leave it.
We don't subscribe as hardly use it, we would if we were regular watchers.
We aren't in the same house as ds1, he lives in the next town 8 miles away.

You all live in the same house?! Sounds like you've got your own sitcom in the making. Who needs Netflix?!