Netflix has started to restrict its users from streaming more than one movie at a time as part of its price hike.
The change could have a major effect on how families use Netflix. No longer can one person watch a movie from the iPad while the rest of the family watches another film on the Xbox, for example.
As website Stop the Cap points out, Netflix has always had a policy that limited streaming, with those on a single DVD or streaming-only plan limited to streaming one film at a time.
But it appears as if Netflix just started enforcing this rule on September 1. The changes seem to coincide with Netflix’s price hike, which took effect on Sept. 1 as well. Now, if you attempt to launch two movie streams, Netflix will block it and tell you that your membership plan doesn’t support multiple movie streams.
Between the 50% price hike and this, you are seeing a company that knows it’s the only game and is now acting like the last man on an island filled with women.
Unless Obama wins a second term and is alloweed to fulfill his corporatist goal of empowering big business in ways that favor and resemble big government, this won’t last.