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netflix says a hundred million
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households worldwide use the service but
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don't pay for it and that's all about to
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change after years of encouraging
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password sharing netflix is doing
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everything it can to stop it and this
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password sharing crackdown may be headed
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to the united states as early as next
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year based on testing in other countries
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there are two ways that this could work
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the first option is charging an extra
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fee for additional members and i first
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told you about this test a few months
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ago here's a blog post from march 2022
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it says netflix users on the standard
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and the premium plans can add up to two
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sub accounts and those are for people
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who don't live in their home the cost
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for these extra accounts is 299 in costa
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rica and this is also being tested in
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chile and peru the second paid sharing
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method is not for additional members
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instead it's for additional households
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netflix is intended for one household
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only and that's what's prompting this
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crackdown in the first place starting in
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august 2022 netflix is testing an
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add-a-home feature in argentina the
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dominican republic el salvador guatemala
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and honduras from this blog post you see
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it'll cost an extra 299 a month per home
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and with this test there are limits to
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the number of homes that you can add
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based on your plan one for basic two for
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standard and three for premium what
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happens when you travel well this is an
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faq page for argentina that's one of the
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test countries and it says you can watch
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netflix on your laptop or your phone
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when you're traveling you can also watch
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netflix on a tv outside your home but
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with restrictions for up to two weeks as
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long as your account has not previously
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been used in that location
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so you're probably wondering which of
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these two methods of paid sharing will
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end up in the united states and when is
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that going to happen well here's the
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answer to at least one of those
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questions and i would say while it's
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early you know to call it obviously we
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just you know are getting going on the
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second approach so we'll learn more from
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that i would say we're tracking quite
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well to you know sort of the plan that
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we had in place and and um i am
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increasingly confident you know that um
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based on what we're seeing that we'll
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have something that we can deploy um
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next year as we were planning you heard
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it right there expect paid sharing in
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the us in 2023 and that's also the year
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when netflix says it is now going to
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introduce that plan with advertising no
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details yet on the pricing for that plan
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but you know i'll be following it for
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you here thanks for watching
