The Netflix Password-Sharing Crackdown Has Begun
Bad news for streamers mooching their Netflix access.
Netflix is testing a feature seemingly meant to curb password-sharing between users who are not members of the same household. An image of an email message prompting its user to sign up for “your own Netflix for free today” was shared on Twitter and reported by multipleoutlets that confirmed the test. In the Netflix prompt shared on Twitter, the service states that if you do not “live with the owner of this account, you need your own account to keep watching.” That policy is included in Netflix’s terms of use.
Screenshot: Operation Varsity Blues/Netflix
In the absence of broadly appealing new films and TV series (no Oscar hopefuls this month, I’m afraid), Netflix appears to be looking to the podcast market to figure out how to keep its massive subscriber base happy. Its new offerings in March include a host of documentary series and specials that I would totally listen to, were they podcasts. Will I watch? Well, I will not. (I haven’t even seen
Ted Lasso yet.) But you might.
Operation: Varsity Blues (March 17) is sure to draw eyeballs, fascinated as we all were by the college admissions scandal that toppled such titans of culture as Felicity Huffman, Aunt Becky from