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Oh No…
…anyway.
Yar har fiddle-lee-dee. Do what you want 'cause a pirate is free!
Yo ho ahoy and avast! Being a pirate is really badass!
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Public trackers are dead tho.
Well more and more this enshittification thing seems to be a global phenomenon.
They are pissed they have to refi their corporate debt at higher rates so they are jacking up prices on peasants, share buy backs ain’t free.
For shit like streaming it should be pretty easy to vote with your money. This ain’t food or shelter.
They are losing subs already and they decided to raise prices. I don’t know how this makes any sense.
They’ll look at it as shedding weight before expanding into new territories.
I guess we all knew this was coming after Netflix did it.
Oh no, you mean I need to buy bigger hard drives with the money I’ll save from cancelling another subscription? What a shame.
Did y’all know a VPN can cost less than $3 a month? Skip the Starbucks and hoist the colors.
what vpn is $3 a month?
Torguard and PIA.
Oh no! Whatever will I do if they raise their prices and crack down on sharing as I sit here with a VPN and a 50TB NAS…
Can’t say it wasn’t a good run and I actually enjoyed the era of streaming where content was easy to get to at a fair price but as is the circle of life, these companies will always inevitably become the greedy monsters they sought to replace.
these companies will always inevitably become the greedy monsters they sought to replace
Netflix is the only service I can think of that fits that bill. The truth is, virtually every other major streaming service popped up already being greedy corporation’s that just wanted a piece of the pie. Divide, conquer, and raise prices was always the plan.
Yeah 96TB and usenet access is my streaming service these days. The system has paid for itself when I consider all the subscription fees we’ve avoided because of it.
But how can Bob get a raise if you don’t subscribe?
Sell to 🍎
Yeah, I’m subscribed to two already.
That’s my limit and I’m not signing up for another one, especially at that price.
I was once subscribed to four! I am now subscribed to one as the others kept fucking with me with these price raises and password sharing crackdowns.
I think more people just need to draw a line in the sand. These companies’ strategies are akin to slowly inching up the temperature of the water until you’re sitting in boiling water without realizing it.
It’s unfortunate that the average consumer seems to be about as aware as the lobster.
The real trick is just subscribe for a month, watch everything you want, then cancel. No more concurrent subscriptions. All you need is one when you want. Not all year.
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Then they will introduce minimum contact lengths. I’m always surprised it wasn’t like that from the start actually.
As this becomes more common, will we see an increase of quality available on certain waters?
Quality won’t increase relative to official methods because it’s already more or less at parity with them. If the file you watch is tagged as a WEB-DL, in most cases it’s identical to the file you’d be streaming via official methods in terms of quality. It’s just remuxed into an open container format like .mkv (the video and audio streams are losslessly copied into a file format which can be shared)
I’m getting excellent quality. Usenet is the way.
Pirate rips of streaming content is already 100% quality. The files are literally the audio and video data repackaged into mkv files with no re-encoding. 4K Dolby Vision rips with atmos audio tracks are now common.
The only way the pirate copies will get better is if the streaming services start offering higher quality streams.
More and more people will move back to torrenting and using their own media library manager like jellyfin
Yo ho, the seven seas await!
Fuck this guy. I’m not so much concerned about this as I am the way he’s cornholing his writers and actors. As for the price increase of Didn’t-ney Plus, that’s what DVDs are for, right?
The studios are just going to keep doing this as using streaming services as a loss leader has failed them, so please, support the strike.
People already bitch that Disney isn’t worth the current price and they want to make it cost that much more?!
I think it’s well worth the $80/yr annual sub, but I’m not sure how much higher I’d consider before just dropping it (and the article doesn’t say what the annual price is raising to). It’s basically only Star Wars & Marvel content (that I watch on it) and I believe they’re cutting back on both, so, not giving a real good value proposition here for someone that’s been subscribed since day one.
Combined with his comments on the strikes and he’s making a compelling argument for cancellation.
They just raised the price to $109. My daughter watches Disney but I’m about to start downloading her shows and movies. That’s absurd.
