Netflix doesn’t plan to shut down password sharers overnight. Rather, it intends to bill shared accounts an extra fee in a global rollout that may take a year.
, will likely not set their own plans until after reviewing Netflix's password-sharing reforms.
In addition, Netflix will have to tread lightly around defining password sharers to avoid wrongly tagging people as abusers, such as family members temporarily living away from home. "They'll start with serial abusers," said LightShed Partners media analyst Rich Greenfield."If you have 15 people using your account, it's pretty easy."
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