Netflix Canada to start slapping the fingers of customers who share their passwords with family members or friends. The streaming giant is cleaning up its act and will crack down on this illegal way of sharing.
Emails from Netflix Canada will land in Canadian users’ email to inform them of the limitations of account access by users who are not under the same roof.
It’s simple. This intervention comes as Netflix wants to increase its number of subscribers and its revenues, while the company has taken advantage for years of this password sharing so that word of mouth does its work.
Netflix Canada begins password sharing crackdown, additional members cost $7.99 https://t.co/CsZTWgJyH5
— National Post (@nationalpost) February 8, 2023
The current rules state that people with a basic subscription can “purchase an additional member slot” at a cost of $7.99 per month.
Forpremium 4K HDsubscribers, who pay $20.99 each month, they can add two members who do not live in the same house.
As forstandard subscribers ($16.49 per month), they are able to add one member per month.
Of course, the $9.99 basic plans and the ad-supported plans that cost only $5.99 don’t allow you to add people who don’t live in the same house.
This announcement is the first step of this radical change, which should begin in the next few months.