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Because yar.
Your average person doesn't care enough to deal with piracy when they can throw some money at Netflix and use their TV or console's built-in applications.
Hell, when I myself want to watch a random movie, sure, I could grab an HDMI cable, plug in my computer to my TV, find a pirated file, and watch it, but I could also spend $5 or whatever and just cast it from the Google TV app on my phone without getting off the couch. At the end of the day, there's a level of convenience that I, and I'd suspect most people, really don't mind paying for at the end of the day.
I would argue that your average person was probably already paying for Netflix if there was something there they wanted. The password sharing clique is a specific breed of leecher that is 100% at home with using a VPN and a torrent server.
I could always be wrong, but that's my suspicion. It will be fun to watch, either way.
I don’t know, a lot of people I know (mid 20s) had been using their family’s shared Netflix which are now getting their own accounts each due to this new rule. Could be anecdotal.