Netflix Expands Crackdown on Password Sharing. On Tuesday the company started checking on its password-sharing policy breach in the United States and more than 100 other countries.
Netflix was sending emails about account sharing to customers in 103 countries and territories, including the United States, Britain, France, Germany, Australia, Singapore, Mexico, and Brazil.
Netflix Expands Crackdown on Password Sharing
The email states that a Netflix account should only be used in one household. Paying customers can add a member outside of their homes for an additional fee. In the United States, the fee is $8 per month.
Netflix last year said it was going to limit account sharing and was testing various approaches in some markets.
The company had estimated that more than 100 million households had supplied their log-in credentials to friends and family outside their homes. As of the end of March, Netflix’s paying customers totaled 232.5 million globally.
Under the new policies, people within the same household can continue sharing a Netflix account and can use it on various devices when traveling, the company said.