Netflix announced new details on the service’s revised “paid sharing” policy on Tuesday. Only users living in the same household are allowed to use an account.
The day of reckoning has finally come: After months of warning and testing in selected countries, Netflix is tightening its belt and ending password sharing. In a first step toward the streamer’s announced plans to implement “paid sharing,” Netflix is politely informing subscribers that, to paraphrase Marlo Stanfield from The Wire, the price of the content is going up.
“A Netflix account is for use by one household,” reads a blog post Netflix published on Tuesday, regarding its new policy. Those the description does not apply to (siblings, friends, parents, etc. who don’t live with the primary subscriber to a Netflix account) have two options if they want to continue watching Netflix: Transfer their account to a new paid membership, or have the Netflix subscriber add an “extra member” to their extended “household” for an additional fee of $7.
