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Wait till they make that loophole unpractical.

A lot of the big titans in the streaming biz are already whinging about account sharing[0], so I wouldn't be surprised if they start complaining that people aren't "committed" enough to their streams as well, too.

It'd be way easier to cut down on stream cycling than account sharing, too - just jack up the monthly price and make the annual price cheaper.

[0] which is particularly rich because they sell multi-stream plans that are almost practically built for it

Can easily imagine yearly subscription becoming $120 and monthly something like $29.

How?

For example by disallowing suspending the account more than once a year or completely. Another way, if someone is trying to cancel a second time (instead of suspending) they start security theater («Your behavior is suspicious, we need to make really really sure that it's you who want to cancel»).

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