Netflix is cracking down on password sharers because of slowing subscriber growth

Indiewire

"Netflix is running out of its most valuable subscribers," says Indiewire's Tony Maglio of the streaming service's experiment of charging a small fee to subscribers in Chile, Costa Rica and Peru to share their account, adding: "One day ahead of Netflix’s blog post (announcing the test), the analysts at MoffettNathanson published in an analysis that the streaming giant already has 'about half' of the world’s potential subscribers — households that have broadband access and disposable income."