Netflix today announced it’s rolling out paid sharing, otherwise known as Netflix’s crackdown on password sharing, to more countries, including Canada, New Zealand, Portugal, and Spain. The company had previously tested paid sharing in select markets, including Chile, Costa Rica, Peru, and elsewhere in Latin America. It’s also now offering a few details about how paid sharing will work, in hopes of quelling a subscriber backlash over the anticipated changes that has some threatening to cancel their Netflix accounts.
The news follows a leak describing password restrictions that came out earlier this month, prompting subscriber complaints.
In the U.S., Netflix had quietly published ...