Netflix starts cracking down on password-sharing in four countries

Netflix connected Wednesday outlined its long-awaited password sharing guidelines for users successful Canada, New Zealand, Portugal and Spain, the adjacent measurement successful the company's telegraphed crackdown.

The streaming institution said users successful the 4 countries volition beryllium asked to acceptable a "primary location" for their Netflix accounts and volition beryllium allowed 2 "sub accounts" for users who don't unrecorded successful that home-base household. Beyond that, the institution volition complaint a monthly interest per other user: CA$7.99 successful Canada, NZ$7.99 successful New Zealand, 3.99 euros successful Portugal, and 5.99 euros successful Spain.

"Today, implicit 100 cardinal households are sharing accounts — impacting our quality to put successful large caller TV and films," said Chengyi Long, Netflix's manager of merchandise innovation.

Netflix is investigating retired its password-sharing restrictions outside of the U.S. earlier rolling them retired domestically successful March. The terms successful Canada could forecast what the institution volition yet complaint erstwhile the paid sharing programme debuts successful the U.S.

The changes announced Wednesday volition rotation retired close away, on with a caller "Manage Access and Devices" leafage that volition let users to curate who has entree to their accounts.

If an relationship has much than the maximum profiles allowed, the idiosyncratic volition beryllium capable to transportation surplus profiles to a caller relationship and prevention the further fee. The transferred profiles volition support each of their personalized recommendations and viewing past from the archetypal account.

Netflix said it plans to revisit and refine the caller relationship absorption leafage based connected idiosyncratic feedback.

The idiosyncratic guidelines travel aft the streamer posted a huge bushed successful subscriber numbers for its 4th fourth and announced that erstwhile CEO Reed Hastings would measurement down.

The institution announced past autumn that it would bounds password-sharing arsenic subscriber maturation successful its U.S.-Canada region stalled.