Netflix wishes in the future to prevent its users from sharing their accounts and passwords with their relatives.
This practice represents a shortfall for the streaming platform in an already complicated period where it continues to lose users, reports Presse-Citron.
The company unveiled the measures it is considering on Monday.
An investment limited by sharing
“It's great that our members love Netflix movies and TV shows so much that they want to share them more widely.
But the widespread account sharing between households today undermines our long-term ability to invest in and improve our service,” Netflix explained on its site.
For the time being, no restriction concerns France, but full-scale experiments are being carried out in various South American countries.
From next month, the streaming platform will offer a new option to its users in Argentina, the Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras.
For an additional 3 euros per month, these subscribers will be able to share their accounts with an additional household.
Mobile users have not been forgotten
Thus, each account will be associated with a household and this one will have the possibility of adding another one for the basic subscriptions, two for the standard accounts and three for the premium accounts.
Use while traveling will also still be possible since Netflix can be watched on a different device than at home for a period of up to two weeks.
This functionality will only be valid if the account has not already been activated in the past on the terminal in question.
Moreover, it is only authorized once per pitch and per year.
Last March, a similar test was carried out in Chile, Costa Rica and Peru.
But it allowed to associate an additional member, and not a household, to an account.
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