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A shareholder lawsuit against Netflix, alleging the company downplayed the impact of account sharing on subscriber growth, was dismissed. The judge ruled that Netflix's previous statements about growth potential weren't misleading, as they referred to paid subscribers and didn't guarantee future growth. The plaintiff failed to prove Netflix concealed the extent to which account sharing hindered growth.
ReutersNetflix won the dismissal on Tuesday of a shareholder lawsuit accusing the streaming company of downplaying the impact on subscriber growth of account sharing, where paying members share user names and passwords with nonpaying members in other households.
The proposed class action led by a Texas-based trustee began after Netflix revealed in April 2022 it had lost 200,000 subscribers in the prior quarter, the first decline in a decade, and might lose 2 million more in the next three months.
Netflix blamed the decline on several factors, including account sharing, rising competition and a shutdown of service in Russia following the Ukraine invasion. Its shares fell 35% the next day, wiping out more than $54 billion of market value.
US district judge Jon Tigar in San Francisco, however, said Netflix's earlier claims to be "roughly 60% penetrated" in the United States and Canada with "a lot of headroom" to grow were not false or misleading because they referred to paid subscribers and did not imply that growth was certain.
He also found no proof Netflix concealed any determination that account sharing would severely hinder growth.
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"At most," he said, the plaintiff's allegations suggest that the Los Gatos, California-based company investigated account sharing and found it to be "one potential threat to growth among many."
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Lawyers for the plaintiff did not immediately respond to requests for comment. Netflix and its lawyers did not immediately respond to similar requests.
Tigar had dismissed an earlier version of the lawsuit in January. Tuesday's dismissal was with prejudice, meaning the plaintiff Fiyyaz Pirani, the trustee of Imperium Irrevocable Trust, cannot amend his complaint again.
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