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Up Next: minimum subscription lengths to prevent users from juggling streaming services. No sir they’re not contracts.
This is fast becoming cable with extra steps.
This is the most logical next step. Probably 3m, 6m,12m to make it somewhat affordable to do in single larger payments.
Some already give you a 30% "discount" (i.e. the regular price is just higher) if you sign up for an entire year.
It’s gonna motivate me to finally get a seedbox and buy some media server hardware
The enshittification continues, but it doesn't affect me at all. Piracy the way to go nowadays that all streaming services suck. !piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com
As Disney said:
Heave ho, altogether. Hoist the colors high.
You can get a VPN for as little as 5 bucks a month. Jellyfin can run on a wide range of devices. Streaming services only make sense when they are cheaper and easier than pirating. At this rate if you stashed all your streaming money for maybe a few months or a year (assuming you're poor like me) you can afford a starter ship to sail in.
I guess it's a good thing I already cancelled last time they raised prices.
What's the point of the regional locks, password sharing blocking, disallowing of third-party clients and especially DRM when at the end of the day I can just type any movie into my torrent client and hours later it would be on my disk shared with everyone in family with access to my Jellyfin instance?
I really want to legally watch, but if their will is to disengurage me so much then okey.
I'm sharing a friend's account because she offered me. But I've only been using it for a handfull of shows. I guess I'll just download those instead.
Cool, looks like I have until June to convince my wife and kids to drop Disney+.
Curious to see how they approach this with their partnership with Verizon. I get it through a family plan, seems like it will be impossible for them to regulate who is/isn't part of a phone plan, since that could legitimately change at any time. Imagine they won't pursue it.
They could still limit the number of simultaneously logged in devices for a family plan. Verizon would know how many lines are associated with the plan.
Assume for a moment the platform providers are in a game of chicken, continually eating costs in the hope of soaking up subscribers from their (at some point) defunct competitors. Every year this competition continues, the victor needs to make increasingly outrageous changes to the service offering in order to bridge the profitability gap. Or perhaps they are betting that a chunk of savings will come from reduced spend on rights, in a market with fewer bidders for programming?
Are investors in the conglomerates even agitated yet?
Jokes on them. We already canceled our service back when they raised prices.
What’d I do?
What do they mean from June? Are they going to retroactively charge people? Or they mean in the future, so people have time to cancel now.
