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> Netflix says it will now start to cancel accounts that have watched nothing in more than a year, but have still been paying subscription fees.

> Netflix said less than half a percent of its user-base falls into that category.

> Almost 16 million people created accounts in the first three months of the year, nearly double the new sign-ups it saw in the final months of 2019.

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With 182.8 million subscribers in the first quarter of 2020, that means that less than 914,000 accounts have watched nothing in the past year.

Not sure I believe that. Even if it's true, it means they include everyone who watched a _single_ thing.

I feel like they are doing the minimum change necessary to try to reduce legal problems. They have actually probably had a lot of people try to sue them for charging them for a service they have not used for months and months, when they forget about it and then notice the charges.

Probably also reducing chargebacks to get a lower fee from CC companies.

> Almost 16 million people created accounts in the first three months of the year, nearly double the new sign-ups it saw in the final months of 2019.

No doubt the quarantine was a solid motivator to sign up.

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