Do you have a Netflix account and share its password with your mates? If yes then you may have to stop doing this soon.
It was announced that Netflix is ‘monitoring’ people who hand out their passwords to their family and friends.
Netflix has announced it is going to limit password sharing. Many users share a single Netflix account with the same subscription and the video-streaming service, with the option to watch up to four screens at a time.
The company’s chief product officer, Greg Peters, said in a vlog last week he would try to find ‘consumer-friendly’ ways to stop groups of people sharing one subscription.
Greg Peters, Netflix’s chief product officer, was asked during the interview how the company plans to address password sharing without “alienating a certain portion of [its] user base”.
”We continue to monitor it so we’re looking at the situation,” Peters said. ”We’ll see those consumer-friendly ways to push on the edges of that.”
He also said the company didn’t have “big plans” to announce immediately. But the company is not going too hard on its customers as ‘families can share subscriptions across multiple devices in the same household,’ reported Daily Mail.
The news came after tech firm Synamedia revealed a new AI system designed to crack down on account sharing.
Speaking at the event, Jean Marc Racine, Chief Product Officer at Synamedia, said: “Casual credentials sharing is becoming too expensive to ignore.
“Our new solution gives operators the ability to take action. Many casual users will be happy to pay an additional fee for a premium, shared service.
“It’s a great way to keep honest people honest while benefiting from an incremental revenue stream.”
Netflix already limits how many people can use a single account, users must pay extra if they want to have three separate screens in use at the same time.
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