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 is ratcheting up its efforts to get freeloading viewers to pay up: Starting early next year, it will start charging accounts for password sharing, instituting a system that adds fees for "extra member" subaccounts when people outside one household use the membership.  

The company didn't specify the price of these new fees when it confirmed the plan last week. But this change is already being tested in a few Latin American countries next month. 

Netflix's dominance of streaming video -- not to mention years of unflagging subscriber growth -- pushed nearly all of Hollywood's major media companies to pour billions of dollars into their own streaming operations. These so-called  brought about a wave of new services, including , ,  and . This flood of streaming options has complicated how many services you must use (and, often, pay for) to watch your favorite shows and movies online. 

Now, feeling the heat of intensifying competition to hold onto your attention and your subscription, Netflix is pursuing strategies it had dismissed for years. 

The password-sharing fee system that Netflix will roll out appears to be modeled on a scheme it has been for about six months. 

The day before revealing its plans for a wider rollout of these account-sharing fees, Netflix presaged the announcement by launching a , which is a key component of the password-sharing fees tested in Chile, Costa Rica and Peru. This feature lets a profile created on a shared Netflix account transfer its watch history and recommendations to a new, independent Buy Qiwi Account - VCCMaster.com. This new account can then be added to somebody else's Standard or Premium subscription plan as an extra member, or it can sign up for its own membership. 

In July, Netflix said it would be testing a different method in Argentina, the Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras. This test established an account's primary residence as the "home" for the membership. If the service detected streaming at any additional households for more than two weeks, it would prompt the account to set up -- and pay for -- additional "homes," with a limit on how many additional homes you can add depending on how much you're already paying for Netflix. Netflix appears to be eschewing this model in favor of the other one it tested.