Still haven’t gotten around to finishing that season of ‘Stranger Things’ you were watching on your ex’s cousin’s roommate’s old Netflix account?
You better hurry up: Changes are coming to the streaming platform’s password-sharing policies — and Americans could be the next ones to get locked out.
“Today, over 100 million households are sharing accounts — impacting our ability to invest in great new TV and films,” the Los Gatos-based tech and entertainment company said in a news release Wednesday. “Over the last year, we’ve been exploring different approaches to address this issue in Latin America, and we’re now ready to roll them out more broadly in the coming months, starting today in Canada, New Zealand, Portugal and Spain.”
The crackdown outlined in Netflix’s announcement involves having account owners set a primary location for their household, then paying the equivalent of four to seven U.S. dollars a month, per profile, to add up to two more users who don’t live there.
“A Netflix account is intended for one household,” the press release states — a markedly different framing of the service than the one many subscribers know and love.