Streaming platform Disney+ is updating its subscriber agreement and is adding a no-sharing-passwords policy.

  • @[email protected]
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    529 months ago

    It was just a matter of time for everyone to follow suit. Unfortunately, capitalism demands endless growth and thus eventually enshittification of products. They’re not happy with just tons of money. They want all the money.

    Expect to see adless tiers constantly rising in price every year. This will push users to piracy again as we come full circle to terrible cable fees.

    • aeternum
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      209 months ago

      This will push users to piracy again as we come full circle to terrible cable fees.

      Way ahead of you. been pirating for years.

    • @[email protected]
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      Unfortunately, capitalism demands endless growth

      Nah. Capitalism can contract just fine. It has happened many times before. Do we not read history books around here? It only demands that it not sit still.

      But that’s not actually a feature of capitalism. That’s a feature of competition, which is present in many economic systems (and even where there is a lack of economic systems). Do we not read the work of Marx either?

      • goldenbug
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        69 months ago

        How is password cracking a feature of competition? I am not trying to dismantle your argument but I am struggling to see how your argument works in this case.

    • @[email protected]
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      139 months ago

      Media companies are forgetting the important lesson. People won’t pay for shit if it’s easier to pirate.

      • @[email protected]
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        9 months ago

        Steam is a prime example. I don’t want to pirate, because I like the services they provide.
        Make that, but for movies. I suppose that’s what Netflix was at some point.

        • @[email protected]
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          49 months ago

          At one point Netflix was better than pirating. It had a catalog of nearly everything in existence and I could impulse watch something without any preparation… while with pirating I had to wait for the download to finish and, occasionally, fish around for a decent copy of what I wanted.

          Then they cut off VPN use… Then their catalog got thinner… Then they raised the price… And then, the line I hated most of all, they became advertising subsidized for some tiers.

          There’s a reason I’m happy to tell Bezos to go fuck himself… and that reason is ads of Amazon prime. (I mean, there are lots of other reasons, too).

          • @[email protected]
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            49 months ago

            Also, Gabe Newell gives a fuck. He wants steam to be the best platform - he isn’t hyper focused on profits.

            Steam still isn’t perfect though… it’s just the least awful centralized platform.

    • PP_GIRL_
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      59 months ago

      A petabyte seems a bit excessive. A couple of 8tb drives is plenty enough for me

    • @[email protected]
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      39 months ago

      There is a show on Disney plus that I love, but sadly I can’t find it on pB. It’s not even that old, but it was funny as hell.

  • @[email protected]
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    369 months ago

    Hypothetically, a Sonarr/Radarr/Usenet/Plex setup is looking reeeeeeeeeeeeal nice right now.

    • _eazedrop
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      79 months ago

      If one wanted to get into Usenet, where would they begin?

      (I definitely do not have a Jellyfin server and entirely too much empty storage)

      • @[email protected]
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        109 months ago

        Well if a person wanted to use Usenet to download news and totally nothing else, they would need two things - a Usenet provider and an indexer. Both cost an annual fee, but it’s less than $100.

        Newshosting for Usenet access, this gets configured in nzbget or sabnzbd as a news server. Then NZBGeek gets configured in Sonarr and Radarr as an indexer.

        Enjoy your glorious news!

        • @[email protected]
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          19 months ago

          Do people not use a VPN with Usenet at all? I have one for torrents to get my Linux ISOs but I just assumed I should also use one to get my news from Usenet.

          • @[email protected]
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            29 months ago

            Nope! The reason you need a VPN for torrents is because you’re also sharing the content. That’s how you’re tracked, mainly. Someone downloads a piece of your Linux ISO, they know you’ve got it.

            Use SSL with Usenet and your traffic is encrypted. Good to go.

        • Nik282000
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          59 months ago

          So many old shows and movies with a single seed hosting at 80kb/s.

        • @[email protected]
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          19 months ago

          How old are we talking about? I’ve had better luck with Newsgroups. Download the file and it downloads full speed vs torrents.

  • FreeBooteR69
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    159 months ago

    I cancelled my annual subscription so past Jan no more Disney+ for me.

  • @[email protected]
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    159 months ago

    Welp Netflix went away and now Disney+. It’s not even that I’m getting anything from the family members using the account but the principal of it.

  • @[email protected]
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    59 months ago

    Well Netflix did it and had one good quarter so let’s try it too.

    One of them will need to go.

  • @[email protected]
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    29 months ago

    Is there anything on Disney+ that I can’t watch for free on Stremio?

    I don’t even need an account on Stremeio. No password needed.