Canadians outraged by new Netflix rules

Last week, Netflix Canada began notifying its users of new password sharing rules for users who don't live together.

According to them, all the gadgets and TVs on which the content of the streaming service is viewed from a particular profile must be in the same location.

If a user wants to add another viewer who does not live with them, they will have to pay a certain amount on top of their monthly payment. Those with a premium account will have to pay an additional $7.99 on top of the $21 CAD monthly fee to add two more viewers who live elsewhere to their account. The same amount will have to be paid to the owner of a standard account for only one additional viewer whose gadgets are in a different geo-tag.

The streaming giant has not yet specified when the new rules will take effect, but has already caused a wave of negativity from its Canadian users.

The indignation comes from those who are quietly sitting on their parents' necks and are still using their Netflix account, even though they have long since become independent adults and have moved out of their parents' house. The parents themselves are outraged, whose student children, living in university dormitories, will now be deprived of a free screening of Stranger Things.

"Netflix is punishing students for being students," writes a Canadian Digital Trends columnist, whose student son lives on campus just 45 minutes from home, but can no longer use his father's account to watch Netflix content for free. — I'll have to say, sorry son, but no Netflix now. Although it might be better to consider the idea of saying goodbye to this streaming service altogether."

"What about travel?" — anxious Netflix users ask. Streaming has an answer to that, too. You can use its services when you travel, but only from the gadget that was once tethered to that very main location, and only for one month.

"Those Netflix employees who came up with these new rules have never traveled longer than 30 days or never had children," Canadians are outraged on social media.

"We share our passwords with friends and family because the monthly fee for Netflix isn't worth the 12 shows they also cancel right after the first season," angry users of the streaming giant wrote.