Netflix May Crack Down On Password Sharing

Netflix has always been aware of password sharing and has never seemed to mind it, but that attitude may change as the company says it’s looking into “consumer-friendly ways” to address the issue. When Guggenheim Securities’ Miachael Morris asked about it, Netflix CFO Spencer Neumann said: “We continue to monitor it. “We’re looking at the situation and we’ll [look for] those consumer-friendly ways to push on the edges of that.” However, Neumann noted that Netflix has “no big plans to announce at this time in terms of doing something different” with how password sharing works. MobileSyrup reports: As it stands, users can sign into Netflix on as many devices as they want, with the only limitation being how many can stream at the same time (depending on the plan). Naturally, this allows people to share their accounts with family or friends. Given how open this is, it’s possible that Netflix would want to reduce the number of devices an account can be registered to. For example, Sony allows users to share content between PlayStation 4 systems by logging into the same account, although it limits this functionality to two consoles. Trying to do this with additional consoles could get an account flagged and blocked.