Disney is raking its customers over the coals with a 75% price hike for their annual subscription (originally $80.) People wonder why piracy is on the rise.Multiple commenters are saying I'm off base about the 75% price increase. My payment less than a year ago was $79.99. Here's the proof.

  • lud@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    Don’t use streaming services they suck.

    If you’re gonna pirate at least do it properly, by downloading.

    • superguy@lemm.ee
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      1 year ago

      Lol, what?

      For convenience and price, you simply can’t beat free streaming sites.

      • lud@lemm.ee
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        1 year ago

        The quality and experience is horrible though.

        Torrenting always wins. But maybe you have poor internet and don’t want to wait for a download (although you can watch a movie while downloading it.)

        A Plex server with automatic downloading is way more convenient.

        • EvacuateSoul@lemmy.world
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          1 year ago

          Usenet is even better. I have my *arrs set up to run both and tdarr transcodes everything to h265 10 bit.

        • andy_wijaya_med@lemmy.world
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          1 year ago

          I’m scared to do torrent man. I didn’t care about it when I was in Indonesia. Now I live in Germany, and now I’m scared of doing it.

          • lud@lemm.ee
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            1 year ago

            Just use a good paid VPN and bind the VPN network Interface to your torrent client so that it’s impossible to torrent without the VPN turned on.

    • pomodoro_longbreak@sh.itjust.works
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      1 year ago

      Never had Disnkey, so this is more about Netflix. Back at the beginning, I didn’t mind paying a fair price for a service that made discovery and streaming easy and convenient. Plus subscriptions going to fund more interesting content? Amazing! Yeah, it’s a bit of platform capitalism, but the fees were reasonable and they spread the wealth in a way I agreed with.

      I’m still not against a service that keeps its fees reasonable for what it’s providing.