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Netflix to limit password sharing with friends and family. Netflix Is Testing New Feature That Prevents Users from Sharing Passwords for the streaming service for both business and security reasons. According to CNN reports the new feature is just a test and it is for the Netflix TV app users. CNN reported when a user-selected their profile on a shared Netflix account, a pop-up comes on the screen and asks them to verify the account by confirming with a text or email sent to the account holder. Viewers have the option to delay the verification and keep watching Netflix. The message may reappear when they open Netflix again, eventually a message pop-up on the screen to required to open a new and account to continue streaming. A Netflix spokesperson told CBS Money Watch that “This test is designed to help to ensure that people using Netflix are authorized to do so” Netflix’s terms of service say users can stream content “for your personal and non-commercial use only and may not be shared...

Netflix to launch Rs 299 plan in India. Netflix will charge Rs 299 a month for a “Mobile+ plan”. According to an Economic Times report, Netflix in India has brought this new entry-level plan on a pilot basis.  Netflix has named this plan ‘Mobile +’. Currently, this plan is in the testing period. In this period, Netflix will charge Rs 299 per month for this plan. Netflix is ​​trying to increase its user base with this cheap plan. New Netflix Mobile+ plan, allows users to stream content on just one device at a time. However the Mobile+ plan allows users to stream on a computer/laptop as well in phone and tablets. Spokesperson of Netflix told to BGR India “We launched the mobile plan in India to make it easier for Netflix. We want to see if members like the added choice Mobile+ brings. We will only roll it out long-term if they do get positive response.Netflix had fewer than half a million subscribers. Today, it has 203.66 million paying members. And the company’s ma...