September 7, 2011 05:55 pm GMT
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Netflix Tightens The Reins On The Number Of Concurrent Video Streams Per Account
Netflix is clearly on the prowl for some extra cash and just closed a popular loophole. The company's terms of service has long restricted the number of concurrent video streams to the number of DVDs the user was able to rent at a time. Have a one DVD-at-a-time plan? Per the TOS, you were able to have one Netflix video stream going at a time. Two DVDs at a time? Two video streams. But it was just loosely enforced with a random pop-up message. That is until now.Starting over the holiday weekend, users instantly received a new error message if they used more than their allotted streams. This message, shown after the jump, kindly indicates to the offending user that a movie is already being watched on this account. This is bad news bears for those freeloading on someone else's Netflix account.Original Link: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/SXp53HjAlsc/
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