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For the first time in 10 years, Netflix is losing subscribers and may also be giving a cheaper option to bring you back

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In my life. >> reporter: depp says hes fighting to clear his name for the sake of his children. for the first time in more than a decade the king of the streaming services has reported losing subscribers. dearest reader, it has been said competition is enough to rise for our greatest of challenges. >> netflix losing 200,000 in the first quarter when it was expected to add 2 million. traditional media companies have gotten into spraeurg. and widespread password sharing. netflix says it plans ...

The company looks to be serious about initiating a global crackdown on such practices.

Sharing. the big question, though, how big is the streaming market? wall street has been investing in netflix, believing they will keep growing and growing, and maybe the market is a billion subscribers or something like that. but youve seen netflix stall now and actually lose subscribers, so its making wall street rethink the business model of netflix and other streaming companies. so what youre seeing is major jitters. netflixs stock price is down 60% this year, and 35% alone today, its one of...

You couldnt do much better than the pandemic, really. people have time on their hands, they cant go out, there is a streaming service offering television 21t/7. its perfect. butjust as other industries which benefited from the lockdown, look at pellet on, just eat, they are experiencing dips and drops, as well as netflix now. latte drops, as well as netflix now. we had talks possibly about adverts. is that something we are possibly going to see? ., , ., , that something we are possibly going to ...

The world. >> why is that such a problem, and what are they doing to fix it? >> presumably if i share my password with you, youre not going to pay for netflix. for a while they liked that, they encouraged password sharing as a way to getting more people addicted to netflix. my brothers still share my password in maryland. but thats not going to last for much longer. netflix needs people like my brothers to go ahead and start to pay that pressure is happening not just to netflix but other platfor...

Netflix shares are tumbling now after they made an announcement and they lost subscribers. were talking hundreds of thousands here, clearly indicating that the competition is chipping away at the company. >> yeah, thats really whats playing here. netflix used to be alone in the field but now you have disney, discovery, investing quite a bit in streaming and creating their original content, and netflix is acknowledging that, to some degree, is slowing their growth. there are other things at play ...

But what happened? >> reporter: right now the stock is down 38%. it has fallen off a cliff because of all these factors. streaming, wall street, some investors have been in denial. the warning signs have been here for a couple of years. netflix used to be the only real king of streaming, maybe amazon along the edges, maybe hulu, now its disney, warner brothers, discovery, all with gigantic streaming services. netflix is feeling the pressure and the pinch of inflation as well as issues around the...

Has previously described the practice as "something you have to learn to live with". at the moment its most expensive price plan allows up to four screens to view different shows at the same time, meaning anybody with access to a viewers password has been able to watch for free. netflix now says it is testing new payment plans in developing markets like latin america to curb password sharing. they include allowing people to pay more to add "sub accounts" for up to two people they do not live wit...