Netflix Wants All Your Money Because Password Sharing Hurts

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It looks like the good old days of sharing a Netflix account password with a distant knowledge ends. The goal is clear – Netflix needs more of this Moolah subscription to finance its boot of expanding movies and TVs that now coil in the biggest cinema stars requiring a payroll fat to show their beautiful faces and faces and their chops acting on the screen. In this spirit, Netflix has announced its intention to test two new features aimed at hitting a common ground between business and reason.

The first is the ability to add an additional member, or two, to an account. People with a standard or high-end plan subscription will be able to add a maximum of two people to their account, even if they do not share a house with them. Each person “unrelated” added to a parent account will have its own user profile, a curative power supply of content recommendations and – more importantly – their own login identifiers. Netflix will charge $ 2.99 to do this in Costa Rica, during the initial test phase. The “anti-password” soaking test is also conducted in Chile and Peru.

The mooch has to pay

Then, the ability is the ability to transfer accounts without losing any of the associated data: In this way, if you have shared someone else’s account, NetFlix will allow you to transfer things like your visualization history, Custom recommendations and my list, and pay a “legitimate” account in the process. There are two ways to do that. Currently using someone else’s account for his profile can either transfer all their related data to a new account and pay in full or an additional sub-account by paying the value of $ 2.99 and in doing all your possible board.

These plans could be changed in the road when it comes to applying them internationally, the company warns. Netflix insists on the basis of how the aforementioned solutions are used, before it decides on a larger expansion.

Last year, Netflix started showing users an audit prompt, asking if they belong to the same household as the owner of this account. For the company’s terms and services pages, account sharing outside of a household is not allowed. However, it is not applied as strictly as Netflix apparently as. Chengyi Long, Product Innovation Manager at Netflix writes that password sharing outside a home has an impact on the “ability to invest in a large television and movies” for its audience. In simple words, Netflix wants your integrity and subscription – to use good content, and it can finally be ready for the more aggressive font.