Netflix to charge an extra £60 a year if you share your account with others

MSE_Emily

If you share your Netflix account with friends or family who don't live with you, you now need to pay at least an extra £4.99 a month to do so, as the streaming service has extended its clampdown on password sharing to UK users...

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giraffe69

So the article does not cover what happens if you a. wish to share  b. are prepared to pay and c. get Netflix via Sky. Will hardly be that uncommon and poor not to mention it at all.

km1500

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-12128645/Three-crafty-ways-Netflixs-crackdown-password-sharing.html

Phantom151

giraffe69 said:

So the article does not cover what happens if you a. wish to share  b. are prepared to pay and c. get Netflix via Sky. Will hardly be that uncommon and poor not to mention it at all.

I assume it won't be an option as Netflix is free on Sky.

McKneff

Is net flix free on Sky....

giraffe69

Mine is marginally cheaper than it was when paid for separately but is not free.

Phantom151

No extra packages here, free Sky Q upgrade, free Netflix. Baisc package and no extra charge for it so, to all intents and purpose, free.

wild666

I could see people ditching Netflix if they are forced into paying £60 per year to have a friend outside the household pay £60 per year for them to be added to the account, I think the £60 is per person outside the household using the account, so they account holder could be paying up to £180 per year on top of their £15.99 fee if they were sharing with three households outside of the subscribers address. 
There is only one way that sharing outside the household MIGHT NOT be detected and that is on the £6.99 package where the subscriber shares with someone else and they watch the content at different times of the day, i.e. one person watches in the morning and another person watches at night and if Netflix asks they say that it is watched at a different address because they are there at that address babysitting or something similar to avoid the £4.99 extra charge. 

Bradden

I bet they regret this tweet now!



I'm one of the many UK subscribers based in Turkey.

warby68

We are a family of 4 but the 2 student sons live elsewhere mostly. We currently share the membership.

Better read up what it means. 

JSmithy45AD

wild666 said:

I could see people ditching Netflix if they are forced into paying £60 per year to have a friend outside the household pay £60 per year for them to be added to the account, I think the £60 is per person outside the household using the account, so they account holder could be paying up to £180 per year on top of their £15.99 fee if they were sharing with three households outside of the subscribers address. 
There is only one way that sharing outside the household MIGHT NOT be detected and that is on the £6.99 package where the subscriber shares with someone else and they watch the content at different times of the day, i.e. one person watches in the morning and another person watches at night and if Netflix asks they say that it is watched at a different address because they are there at that address babysitting or something similar to avoid the £4.99 extra charge. 

Except that no one will be "forced" into anything. Just change your password and don't share it.