After warning subscribers for months already, Netflix looks like it's finally getting very serious about cracking down on password-sharing. As part of the company's latest earnings report, the company said it expects to roll out "paid sharing" to more users during this fiscal quarter.
The ability to pay money to share passwords will roll out "more broadly" in the months to come, Netflix said. The streaming platform said more than 100 million homes currently share passwords, and this "undermines" the company's ability to "invest and improve" the service, Netflix said. Password-sharing also hurts Netflix's ability to "build our business," the company said.
Netflix said it expects the crackdown on password-sharing, as well as the launch of Netflix's ad-based subscription tier, should help the company make more money in the long run. At the same time, Netflix said it anticipates some level of negative impact on engagement due to people leaving the Netflix ecosystem after the password-sharing fee program rolls out.
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