Netflix is a publicly traded company, lying about something like a huge increase in subscribers would get them in legal trouble for lying to investors.

People are so disappointing.

I think this report is a lie because their password / permission / multi account checking is still not properly configured. In my circle of friends all of them said they would jump the ship because they were mostly paying it for their old parents. At the moment, only one person of the group had nuisances because of password sharing, the others are continuing to use netflix as they were doing six months ago.