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Old 18-03-2022, 17:17   #1006
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Re: Streaming services news, offers and general chit chat

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Originally Posted by muppetman11 View Post
How do they know it’s not the account holder using his Netflix at a friends house ?
If I knew how to work that out I’d have patented it and licenced it to them

I suspect they’ve come up with something that combines a lot of different data points like geolocation, IP address, ISP, long-term user habits and so on. They will probably also tighten their T&Cs and make it harder to use more individual devices than the total number of logins allowed on the account. Apple has something like that for authorising/deauthorising DRM’d iTunes content.
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