Netflix unveils new fees in Canada for password sharing

Canadian users will be notified Thursday by the streaming giant by email about limitations on who can access their account outside their household.

The details of the proposal are already online.

An ad-supported plan that can be used by one person on one device in one location will cost $5.99 a month while the same basic plan without ads will cost $9.99 a month.

Under Netflix’s “standard” plan for $16.99 a month, a user can watch on two devices at the same time, but they must be in the same physical location.

The “premium” plan allows four users to watch at once, for $20.99 a month, but it will also have an extra $7.99 fee if those users are in multiple locations.

Netflix has not said when it would begin enforcing the new rules, but it reported say that it planned to roll out the new rules worldwide sometime before the end of March.

With approximately 250 million paying customers around the world, Netflix has said that about 100 million of them currently share their passwords.

(Reporting by Asha Bajaj)