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Yeah, while I have no problem with people who just ran extra lines to their neighbours so they could get free cable, there's an unsaid but obvious "of course the cable company understandably doesn't approve and will shut that down if they can find out it's happening and might even go after the others for back subscriptions".
Corporate overreach sucks but this is not an example of that. My position on this is being surprised they allowed it for so long and confused as to how people justify their outrage about it.
Because you have to buy the 4x plan in order to enjoy features like UHD. As it is digital there is absolutely no reason, why they couldn't bundle it so there is a standard and premium plan available both for family access or just for single access.
This is like McDonalds only serving you drinks if you buy at least two meals, but forbidding you to give away the second meal.