About Those Pesky Rules Of Ours

Netflix continues to make friends through pissing off their customer base.

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.

That asterisk next to Netflix's "Unlimited" streaming plan keeps getting wordier and wordier, but that just means the service that can find a way to deliver streaming movies that truly are unlimited and do it right, for a low price, will be the company that replaces Netflix on top of the pyramid.