Those of you who are the Netflix subscriber among your friends likely received an email yesterday telling you that your friends and family members outside your household will no longer be able to use your password. It was a good run, folks. It’s over now. Netflix will determine where your home is based on where you log in on a television, so you might want to get out ahead of your password sharers and quickly change your password before they squat on your account. Users outside of that home will no longer be able to use your Netflix account.

This is my official notice to all of my friends who have been using my Netflix account for the last decade. I’m sorry. I think I can still share my Peacock password if that appeals. Mrs. Davis, Traitors, and Poker Face are really good! Also, if my Max account says that there are too many streams for me to watch Succession live on Sunday night, I will murder you all.

The good news is, you can “share” your account with one other person (if you have the standard account) or two (if you have the premium account) for a discounted rate of $7.99. They can even keep their Netflix profiles. I’m sure that a lot of parents will offer to continue paying for a college kid’s account. If they have two kids in college, they may have to figure out which is their favorite. It’s a fairly easy process (I just did it myself), with one caveat: You can’t transfer Kid profiles.

I know that this change is going to upset a lot of people who do not pay for their accounts. I know that some people who have been using someone else’s password are not going to subscribe on their own. I do not know why those people think it will hurt Netflix if a password sharer who wasn’t paying decides not to pay for their own subscription. I also don’t really understand why people who have been using someone else’s password feel that this is a great injustice. Subscriptions are how Netflix can afford to make Love Island and The Diplomat. We can probably all agree that the company takes too much off the top, but the people who make their shows and movies do need to be paid.

In fact, I genuinely do hope that Netflix gains more subscribers. I hope they use the additional money to pay their writers. Production on Cobra Kai and Stranger Things is currently on hiatus because of the writers’ strike. I can tell Netflix right now that if those shows do not return in a timely manner, they will lose millions of subscribers that they could have kept by simply paying their writers. This is, after all, the “Netflix Strike,” so Netflix — more than any other streamer — is in the best position to end it. Please do. Those writers are necessary if you ever hope to convert password sharers into paying subscribers.