Crackdown on Netflix Password Sharing: What It Means for You - CNET

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If you're sharing your Netflix password with friends oregon family, it's clip to marque a choice: Do you privation to wage extra, oregon politely footwear them from your account? 

Netflix has rolled out account-sharing changes to US customers who are sharing passwords with anyone extracurricular their household. Subscribers with either a modular oregon premium program tin take to wage an other $8 per period for each further member. 

However, determination are limits to however galore other users are allowed. Premium subscribers ($20 a month) tin adhd 2 other radical to their relationship portion those connected the modular program ($15.50 a month) are lone allowed 1 other member. Netflix defines a household arsenic 1 wherever everyone lives nether the aforesaid roof. Members of that household are inactive capable to ticker contented portion traveling, and the other interest volition not apply. At this time, the other subordinate enactment is lone disposable for those who are billed straight by Netflix. 

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When you unfastened the Netflix app and navigate to your relationship page, you'll spot an Extra Members option. From there, subscribers tin acquisition a slot for the idiosyncratic extracurricular their household. If they judge the invitation, the other subordinate volition person their ain abstracted account, illustration and password, and the interest is paid for by the main subscribing household.

The rules? Extra subordinate accounts tin lone watercourse connected 1 instrumentality astatine a clip and are lone permitted to person 1 profile. The other subordinate indispensable besides beryllium located successful the aforesaid state arsenic the relationship holder. 

A peek astatine wherever to find Extra Members connected your relationship page.

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Subscribers tin besides opt to region users extracurricular of their households from their account, and past impulse them to motion up for their ain Netflix subscriptions. In this case, anyone who is removed from an relationship can transfer existing profiles to a caller rank they wage for themselves. 

Here's a look astatine the monthly outgo for each subscription plan:

The streaming work rolled retired its caller argumentation successful February for Canada, Spain, Portugal and New Zealand. Netflix archetypal announced its volition to ace down connected password-sharing past year. In April, Netflix said it would instrumentality a interest for US customers by the extremity of the 2nd quarter, i.e. the extremity of June, but the changes took effect successful precocious May.