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Netflix cracks down on password sharing in Australia

You'll need to pay $7.99 AUD/month for a second household.

Netflix’s one household policy, one meant to crack down on password sharing between friends and extended family, has now been rolled out to countries including Australia and the United States of America.

As we’ve previously reported, the new system will keep track of your IP address to ensure you’re accessing Netflix from a single, base location.

Devices like smartphones and tablets — which will naturally leave your household alongside the people attached to them — will need to access Netflix from that single household’s location once per month.

Additional households will cost you $7.99 AUD per month — and that price is the same, locally, in other regions that have implemented the feature.

This new follows a trial that started in Costa Rica, and previous activations in New Zealand, Canada, Portugal and Spain.


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