It’s now explicitly against Disney Plus’s policies for Canadian subscribers to share passwords outside of their household.
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.
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Do it like me: never subscribe! Ez gg
These services really seem to want me to uninstall them
Arr, the wind she blows
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Starting on November 1st, Disney Plus will begin restricting password sharing.
Disney has not provided many details on how it plans to enforce this policy — its email merely states that “we’re implementing restrictions on your ability to share your account or login credentials outside of your household”.
The announcement comes over a month after Disney’s Q3 earnings call, where CEO Bob Iger said that the company was “actively exploring” ways to address shared accounts.
Disney Plus is just the latest streaming service to attempt to tackle password sharing.
Netflix accounts are restricted based on a user’s IP address; subscribers, depending on the plan they select, have the option of adding additional members to their accounts for an additional fee.
But hey, if it’s any consolation: Canadian users now have access to the cheaper ad-supported tier.
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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.
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.
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.
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.
Sorry to break it to you, but that’s probably the future
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!
This guy looks like he’s gonna try and have an intellectual convo with Dr Jones, even though he’s sold his integrity to the Nazi’s at the chance to unleash the true evil power of streaming services. But Dr Jones won’t have it and this guy will be whipped milk before he’s done. The end
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.
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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.
Verizon gave me $30 towards my iPhone to cancel Disney+, so…
Whaaaat?
Yeaaaah buddy
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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Simpsons, Futurama, the bear, modern family, mandalorian, atlanta and it’s always sunny are all also on Disney plus and absolutely top tier content
Obviously you should do whatever you want with your money but if you’re sleeping on some of the ones I suggested, definitely check them out before cancelling!
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Oh, might be different for me since I’m in canada – fair enough
Let’s agree to disagree on the mandalorian, I think it’s got the best vibe. It’s just fucking cool
Futurama is also on the Internet Archive.
Begun, the pirating has.
I’ll try pirating, that’s a good trick!
This is where the fun begins.
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
I’m not back to pirating
Not or now?
Both.
Schrödinger’s pirate.
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.
Anyone know if there is an easy way to cast using this with chromecase, rather than screen share? I know there is a way, but I always forget how to do it.
want to upvote but at 66
Time to start pirating
Start? Did we ever stop?
I mean it’s time for those who still pay for garbage subscriptions to finally free themselves from media corporations
