Netflix to start charging US customers for sharing account passwords

A hot potato: The time that many of us have been dreading is here: the days of being able to share your Netflix password with friends and family freely are over. The streaming giant is informing customers in the US that they will either have to stop others from using their account or pay $7.99 per month for an additional membership for someone outside the main household.

Netflix has been working on a way to crack down on password-sharing for a while now. It's a practice that a third of all US subscribers engage in, and now Netflix will charge those who do it.

In an email sent out to all US subscribers, Netflix writes that its accounts are for single households only. It states that if you want to share Netflix with someone outside of your home, you can use the profile transfer tool it rolled out ...