It’s now explicitly against Disney Plus’s policies for Canadian subscribers to share passwords outside of their household.
I cancelled all my subscription services today and fired up the ol’ abandoned Plex server. I was paying for the convenience for awhile to be honest, but I’m over it now. Internet and a VPN are mostly all anybody needs anymore.
Also unlike streaming services, the tools around this stuff have only gotten better over time. It’s so much easier now to set up your own personal streaming service than when I was last into it years ago.
i’m actually reverting back to pre-digital. i still collect files and some things are easier that way, but it doesn’t feel quite as satisfying to play one as it does a disc or vinyl. it’s cool seeing all the cases lined up on a shelf
I’ve thought about doing this, but the downside is that the physical media can deteriorate. I just started backing up my DVDs yesterday to my NAS and the first disc I pulled out was rotting.
Guess it’s time to increase the range of my sonar
And radar.
Did you know that jellies have fins? Crazy world
We can joke now, but we won’t be once they lobby the governments to make VPNs illegal
I always see this, but lobbying to make VPNs illegal is stupid and will never pass. So many companies use VPNs for their own security measures, they’d never allow something like that to pass.
Now that ungodly encryption back door law the UK passed, that could happen.
How about “illegal for private non business use?”
Imagine getting arrested or fined for trying to protect your own privacy. Like what the fuck.
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I see so you don’t live in the US?
I’m happy Canada doesn’t really care about pirating. I have a VPN setup but it’s just set to a city a few hours from me for a bit of extra precaution.
Also you don’t need a VPN for Usenet :)
doesn’t usenet cost money?
Not very much. Someone has to host that data and that costs money.
I need to look into usenet then, from what I understood its very location based? Seeing im in scandinavia - i should look for something close?
Such comPlex creatures!
I subscribe to +, netfix, hulu, prime and all the cable. All my R are perpetually in order though. If i find a show/movie worthy, it gets stowed. If they f me over bad enough to leave, I’m not going empty handed.
Arrrr!
Netflix had it, lost it due to a more competitive landscape. Now they all have reached about peak saturation and are struggling to hit those massive numbers where people are doing it willingly, they they think they can strong arm people into it. Streaming is all about convenience. Can I sit on the couch and put on something relatively engaging for a few that seems relatively reasonable? Ya? Cool. The further you move away from that model the more people start to look elsewhere. Pirating has gotten a lot, and I mean a LOT easier, and that arm is only so strong.
See you on the high seas matey!
Torrenting go brrrr…
If only there was a brrTorrent to add to the *arr stack.
I never found my way to a port. Been out on the sea for so long I don’t remember how land even looks like.
*arr stack is too easy, I couldn’t pay for a better experience if I wanted to.
Keep the black flag flying high!
Begun, the pirating has.
I’ll try pirating, that’s a good trick!
This is where the fun begins.
want to upvote but at 66
It never ended for those with brains.
Why pay for something you can get for free? Lol.
Unless you’re a sucker.
Personally I value my time above money, as it’s the one thing that you get a finite amount of.
With the ease of streaming going down, and the ease of pirating going up, I’m now back to pirating.
EDIT: now not NOT
Yeah, the only reason you’re in a position to do that is because so many others are not.
Also, it’s faster to stream something for free here https://fmoviesz.to/ than to add credit card information and create a new account for each streaming service that has something you want to see.
Like I said, people with more money than sense.
it’s just so obnoxious they’re pretending they get to charge more for using a website somewhere else. simultaneous streams, sure - at least that makes sense that it’s something the company would know and reasonably suffer from. but the idea that you’re formally tethered to somewhere is so fucking invasive and fundamentally wrong. it’s the INTERNET you sick fucks. it’s not like they’re paying extra shipping because someone has a family in alaska.
All studios had to do was follow the path of music streaming. It’s practically rid of piracy on a mass market because most streaming service has practically the same content. So it’s a matter of user experience they’re competing with, not the content they host.
They’d be losing even more money.
Netflix is profitable, Spotify never was. The differences between the realm of movies and music are so numerous that I won’t even bother listing them. Music and movies studios concerns are vastly differents, their economic realities are vastly differents, the product is too.
I cancelled my Netflix the moment that announced their new account sharing policy, which, looking back on it was probably too early for it to count as protest. I don’t personally share my account, but I knew that if they were able to pull it off that every other streaming service and probably other services would do the same thing.
Consumers can beat these large corporations, but only when they stand up for themselves. See Wizards of the Coast and Unity. Unfortunately Netflix subscribers did not, and now this is the new standard.
Canceled once they started enforcing the new policy in Germany. I will the same once Disney does it. I have kids in school that use it and when it is not for the whole family anymore it is not interesting enough anymore.
I am tired of especially Disney saying they are losing money on the service. Loosing how? It is produced and paid for. Then strengthen your brand by making every household with kids paying you a monthly fee instead of picking up dvds at a yard sale.
Beancounters telling you you missing out on sales you never had in the first place and never will have.
Exactly. It’s corporate privilege. Fuck these greedy sluts
Arr, the wind she blows
Ahh, may they join Netflix in their journey to 0% then negative revenue. These corporations look at their subscribers with disdain and assume no matter what they do, subscribers will be dumb enough to be treated poorly and still pay them. Netflix is losing subscribers who pay $16 - $20 and replacing them with those that pay half as much. Then they shout from the rooftops that they are gaining subscribers. They’ve set their trajectory towards their doom. Watching them all burn will be great.
I first read the enshittification post during the Reddit blackout. It’s on point.
I’m usually skeptical of these pat buzzword that pop up every now and then in the various blogosocospheres, but this one does seem incredibly apt.
Where’s [1]?
Disney+ quality has been decreasing lately. If it weren’t for huge Disney animated movies collection there that the kids play on repeat, half of the people wouldn’t bother with Disney+.
You can stream pretty much anything for free here: https://fmoviesz.to/
Just make sure you have uBlock Origin installed.
If you ever have issues, do an internet search for “free streaming sites reddit” and try one of those.
Thank God I never bothered with their bullshit in the first place
May it go as well as the Netflix password-sharing crackdown (id est, followed by a flood of unsubscribes).
I hate Netflix as much as the next guy but let’s not shield our eyes from reality. Their move was actually very successful. A small percentage of people unsubscribed, but that number was dwindled by the number of new subscribers. Netflix basically proved that people for the most part don’t care and will subscribe just to keep watching. Of course Disney and others will follow suit after seeing that.
We don’t have the metrics yet to see if they stay subscribed. Look at it this way, Lemmy grows and shrinks by leaps and bounds every time reddit does something crazy. Same principle. This also doesn’t take into account people wanting to subscribe to finish a show and then unsubscribe afterwards.
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Cant you just set things up with a router to tunnel your disney+ connection through a device at your family members house so you streaming from 1500 miles away looks like its coming from their house?
It’s far easier and more performant to simply pirate what you want to watch.
Eh, still need a VPN for that so your ISP cant send you pissy emails about what you’re doing.
Easy to vpn on a desktop, download, and put things on Plex.
Harder to setup a vpn tunnel to another house and configure only your tv to use it.
You gave your TV internet access, with how much they are known to spy on you?
Blegh.
Piracy is easier.
I was hoping that Disney wouldn’t join the enshittification club so quickly.
Yes, but this is too difficult/complicated for 80%+ of users
