Netflix is experimenting with measures to prevent password sharing and to compel viewers to pay an additional fee

 

However, the addition of the “add an additional member” and “transfer profile” capabilities demonstrates that Netflix is thinking carefully about how to continue growing while its subscriber base plateaus. If Netflix wishes to maintain its throne as the streaming monarch, it must continue to bankroll ever-expensive original content. That money has to come from someplace, as Long said succinctly in today’s Netflix announcement.