The Netflix password-sharing crackdown might be coming for you…
Yesterday, the internet was in a tizzy when Netflix (perhaps inadvertently) released some details about its long-gestating plan to prevent password sharing.
Based on information from Netflix’s Help Center earlier this week, the original plan was to require passwords to be shared within households only. To ensure this, every device you’re logged into must connect to the Wi-Fi at a designated “primary location” and watch something at least once every 31 days.
According to Yahoo! Finance, Netflix planned to use “IP addresses, device IDs, and account activity” to determine who was at the primary location.
What if you’re not at that primary location? Blocked! You can get a code to watch for seven days, but it’s not clear if the device will be blocked from the account permanently after those seven days.
However, today, Netflix is walking back some of these policy changes. Apparently, this information was part of a Help Center update that has now been removed, per The Streamable.
Author: Jo Light
This article comes from No Film School and can be read on the original site.
