Netflix’s paid password-sharing experiments have been happening for a while in Canada, New Zealand, Portugal, and Spain.
Yesterday, the streaming video pioneer expanded its crackdown on password sharing to the United States and more than 100 other countries (including Britain, France, Germany, Australia, Singapore, Mexico and Brazil).
“Your Netflix account is for you and the people you live with,” the company said in an email, which it posted to its blog on Tuesday.
Customers now have the option of adding extra members who can use the service outside their household. Netflix in the US will charge subscribers $7.99 each month for extra member slots. In the UK, the fee is £4.99 per month per person.
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