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Netflix: No more account sharing! The streaming provider wants to take action against this in 2022 – but how?

2022-05-16T08:02:04.176Z


Netflix: No more account sharing! The streaming provider wants to take action against this in 2022 – but how? Created: 05/16/2022, 09:51 By: Juliane Gutmann Do you share the Netflix account with others? Officially allowed - at least if they all live in the same household. Netflix wants to take action against violations with immediate effect. The Netflix subscription model is basically simple.


Netflix: No more account sharing!

The streaming provider wants to take action against this in 2022 – but how?

Created: 05/16/2022, 09:51

By: Juliane Gutmann

Do you share the Netflix account with others?

Officially allowed - at least if they all live in the same household.

Netflix wants to take action against violations with immediate effect.

The Netflix subscription model is basically simple.

The basic subscription for 7.99 euros per month is intended for single users who stream on one device.

The standard subscription for 12.99 euros is intended for two end devices.

Two people can stream films and series at the same time as they please.

Anyone who has subscribed to the premium account pays EUR 17.99 per month.

In this case, however, you can share the account with four other users -

provided they live in the same household

.

Sharing an account with people living in your own household - such as roommates, parents, partners or children: the Netflix terms and conditions also state that this is expressly permitted, as the special insurer Wertgarantie informs.

But many Netflix users also share their accounts with friends or family members who live in other cities

.

Since there are currently no controls on the part of Netflix (yet), this form of account sharing is operated by some users.

But that could soon be over.

Sharing your Netflix account with others?

You can find out under what conditions this is okay in the text.

© Imago

Password Sharing Survey

Netflix wants more control over account sharing

Because the large streaming provider would like to get its users to set up their own Netflix access in the future.

The advantages for the company are obvious: more income from individual payers and a better overview of the number of active users.

In order to get even more out of it financially, an additional fee for sharing Netflix passwords with people outside your own household is to be introduced from the fourth quarter of 2022, according to the online magazine

DWDL.de

, which focuses on topics from the German media industry .

But how is that supposed to work?

According to the insurer, Netflix is ​​researching a tool that recognizes when passwords are shared.

In order to put a stop to the sharing of passwords by users who live separately, Netflix already stated at the end of 2019 that it should soon no longer be possible for the premium account to access it from different IP

addresses

.

However, it has not yet been officially confirmed when Netflix will really stop sharing.

(jg)

Source: merkur

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