- cross-posted to:
- technology@lemmy.world
- cross-posted to:
- technology@lemmy.world
It’s now explicitly against Disney Plus’s policies for Canadian subscribers to share passwords outside of their household.
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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.
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.
I used to sail the seas with great passion about 10-15 years ago. Then music, and video streaming came along and was fairly priced and I happily became a landlubber. Over the past year I’ve begun sailing again because all the services want a slice of a pie that’s just not that big. Sailing is better than it ever was. The boats are much larger, faster and even look and sound better.
The best part is the boats just drive themselves these days as long as you use proper equipment like sonar and radar
Add in prowlarr\jacket, bazarr and gluetun (with desired torrent\usenet client) containers and you’re bulletproof.
Please can you post a link to such instructions for an old sailor who is back on the boat?
How would a sailor get started readying his ship?
the fact that they keep making these shitty greedy moves is undermining their core business model: how am i ever supposed to trust them to maintain a decent library and give me decent access to it when they do shit like this?
even look and sound better.
Disney Plus limits video quality on Linux to 720p.
The seas give you 4k and 5.1 audio with better convenience.
Guess it’s time to increase the range of my sonar
Begun, the pirating has.
I’ll try pirating, that’s a good trick!
This is where the fun begins.
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See you on the high seas matey!
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.
Torrenting go brrrr…
If only there was a brrTorrent to add to the *arr stack.
Keep the black flag flying high!
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.
Arr, the wind she blows
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.
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.
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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+.
Do it like me: never subscribe! Ez gg
Thank God I never bothered with their bullshit in the first place
Jokes on them, if (when) this reaches the US, I’m going to stop regularly subscribing. The only reason I usually have a subscription is for my nephews in another state. If I’m no longer subscribing for them, I’m just going to subscribe when a show I want to watch is on, so 1-3 months a year.
They don’t really care tbh. A few may cancel their subscription but enough will continue to justify the decision. Netflix stats are already available to see.
