Netflix netted about $1.3 billion in revenue throughout its first fiscal quarter, however the streaming firm may very well be making extra income, so it’s urgent on with a crackdown on password sharing. On Tuesday, it revealed how this modification will influence viewers within the US and UK, and the way a lot it’s going to value them to share their accounts with individuals exterior their dwelling.

Are you able to share your Netflix account with somebody in a unique dwelling?

Netflix has begun notifying paying subscribers about new choices for any individuals who stay exterior their family: “Your Netflix account is for you and the individuals you reside with – your family,” its e-mail reads. The corporate stated you’ll be able to select to switch an outsider profile to a brand new membership – for that individual person to pay for – or you’ll be able to pay a further payment each month on prime of your base membership price to maintain that outsider in your account.

You possibly can change your plan at any time by following Netflix’s steps right here.

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How a lot is Netflix account sharing?

If in case you have the Normal plan, which prices $15.49 per thirty days within the US, then Netflix stated you’ve got the choice so as to add one further member who can use the service exterior your family for $7.99 further every month. In the meantime, Premium prospects, doling out $19.99 per thirty days, can have two further members exterior their family. These on the Primary or Normal with Advertisements plans in addition to individuals who obtain Netflix by means of a 3rd occasion are ineligible to host further members on their account.

These guidelines apply not solely within the US but additionally within the UK, the place Netflix fees £4.99 per thirty days for further member slots.

What are Netflix’s account sharing guidelines?

In accordance with Netflix’s Assist Middle, further members can stream and obtain programming on the identical decision as allowed by their paying member’s plan, however they’re restricted to a single profile (with distinctive credentials) and a single machine at a time.

Why does Netflix care about password sharing?

That is all a part of Netflix’s effort to claw cash from a few of the 100 million or so households it has decided are sharing passwords. In accordance with Netflix’s Q1 earnings launch this 12 months (PDF), round 30 million are stated to be within the US and Canada. Earlier this 12 months, in an effort to start curbing password sharing, the corporate rolled out what it calls “paid sharing” in Canada, New Zealand, Portugal, and Spain. This account-sharing system was additionally examined in Latin America final 12 months.

As we anticipate the growth of paid sharing, remember that the UK’s Mental Property Workplace has declared password sharing for streaming companies to be unlawful.