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Spotify Starts Cracking Down on Friends Who Share Family Plans (theverge.com)
Spotify is emailing some users on family plans asking for their GPS locations in order to confirm that they live in the same location. From a report: Subscribers who don't confirm their home address could lose access to their plan, according to the email. The move is an apparent attempt by Spotify to crack down on groups of friends who save money on individual subscriptions by sharing discounted plans intended for families. The emails, which have been sent to a limited number of "Premium for Family" subscribers in at least the US and Germany, have been received with scorn by some who rightly point out that not all families live together. However, Spotify's small print does say that the family plan is available for "you and up to five people who reside at your same address." The amount of people subscribed to family plans suggests not all of them abide by Spotify's definition.
Because sure, Spotify, every family always all lives in the same domicile. Kids never leave for college. What a fucking farce. If you don't want people sharing it with their FAMILY, don't call it a fucking family plan and then expect them to all live in the same domicile.
Regardless of your statements about the dictionary definition of a family, they are allowed to have a reasonable business model and a way to prevent people from cheating them.
If you don't like it, subscribe to one of the other streaming plans that let's you share your account with any number of random people. If you are one of the people that is targeted by this crackdown they are happy if you leave since you are costing them money.