Netflix extends password sharing fees in four more countries

Netflix is introducing limits connected password sharing successful 4 much countries: Canada, New Zealand, Portugal and Spain.

Customers successful those countries are being asked to wage an other interest if they privation friends and household who don't unrecorded with them to stock their subscription.

The determination follows a crackdown connected password sharing successful South America.

The media elephantine estimates 100 cardinal radical astir the satellite usage shared accounts.

The deed to revenues from the shared accounts was affecting Netflix's quality to put successful caller programming content, the steadfast said. It has said it is readying to widen the caller attack to much countries successful coming months.

"Over the past year, we've been exploring antithetic approaches to code this contented successful Latin America, and we're present acceptable to rotation them retired much broadly successful the coming months, starting contiguous successful Canada, New Zealand, Portugal and Spain," it said successful a blog post connected Wednesday.

Up until present it has been casual for subscribers to stock their login and password with friends extracurricular their home.

Back successful 2017 Netflix adjacent appeared to beryllium sanctioning the signifier when it tweeted "Love is sharing a password".

But increasing contention successful the streaming market, and customers cutting backmost connected subscriptions owed to the rising outgo of living, person prompted Netflix to absorption connected shoring up its revenues.

The steadfast said that allowing accounts to beryllium utilized by respective radical wrong households had "created confusion" astir erstwhile and however radical could share.

It said members successful Canada, New Zealand, Spain and Portugal would present beryllium asked to acceptable up a "primary location" for their relationship and negociate who has entree to it.

Members would inactive beryllium capable to ticker Netflix erstwhile they travelled, some connected idiosyncratic devices and logging successful in different places, for illustration successful a hotel, it said.

For CAD$7.99 (£4.92) Canadian subscribers tin adhd up an other subordinate arsenic a "sub account" the blog said, with a maximum of 2 sub accounts per subscription.

The interest would beryllium akin successful New Zealand astatine NZ$7.99 (£4.17). There would beryllium a terms quality for sub accounts betwixt Portugal astatine €3.99 (£3.54) and Spain astatine €5.99 (£5.32).

Netflix main operating serviceman Gregory Peters past period acknowledged that the changes would not beryllium "universally popular" and warned investors to expect immoderate cancellations.

He said the steadfast expected to yet marque up those losses.

In the archetypal fractional of 2022, Netflix saw its subscriber numbers autumn sharply. It chopped hundreds of jobs and enactment up prices to screen rising costs.

In November, it introduced a cheaper ad-supported enactment successful 12 countries, including astir of Europe, the UK and the US.