TLDR:
Current ad free plans for Disney+ and Hulu are now raising $3 more on October 12. Both becoming $13.99 and $17.99.
At this point these services are asking us to pirate. We aren’t getting our money from trees.
Yup, this + crackdown on password sharing made me cancel all of my 3 subscription plans and move back to pirating.
The reason for pirating for me isn’t about getting stuff for free, it is about paying a reasonable total sum for the amount I use these streaming platforms.
Yarr harr fiddle-dee-dee
I never left the sea. I could never find myself at home on dry land.
If someone deserves to be pirated into oblivion it’s Disney, for fucking up the copyright after making a fortune of public domain material.
But they don’t have any content I would like to watch :(
Just do it out of principle!
Ok, I will torrent something and let it seed for couple of days.
I love how after Netflix did this, all of the fucking idiots on Reddit were just like “LOL JUST USE ANOTHER STREAMING SERVICE,” as if it wasn’t obvious as shit that all of the rest of these companies would follow suit shortly.
reddit is absolutely full of the dumbest and most gullible idiots on the planet.
Sounds like they’re removing 4K from the standard plan and moving it to the new premium plan. Fuck you Disney!
There’s a premium plan? Here in Australia, we still just have the one monthly plan, which they recently increased by $3 per month.
If they jump onto the “premium” plan bandwagon like the others, and move 4K to that, this will literally be the final streaming service for me to drop. I’ve already dropped all the others. Only reason I kept this is because the sheer volume of content for my wife and daughter makes the $14 worthwhile - I just don’t have enough storage space (yet) to deliver all that via my Plex setup.
They’re introducing it in Europe from November 2023, not sure about other regions. The press release here explains what’s in each plan - unfortunately the premium plan is listed here and it sounds just like Netflix.
Sonovabitch. This is why I cancelled the others in the first place - forcing me to pay for additional devices, just to get 4K streaming. That, and Netflix wanted to charge me for password sharing because my stepkids use our account when they’re at their dad’s. Netflix’s answer was they should have a profile at each house. Losers.
Arrrrr!
Yaaar! There be no price increases on the seven seas, me hearties. Hoist the sails, raise the flag, no quarter given 🏴☠️
Profits are down. Cough up, plebs!
Disney is the one I’ll shed in a heartbeat. Nothing ever seems to get added. People shit on Netflix, but at least I can go their for comfort food like Jaws or The Truman Show.
This is why I pirate. Disney buys exclusive rights to kdramas that would otherwise be on multiple streaming services just so we have the privilege to overpay for their shitty subscriptions.
Disney can go fuck themselves.
Jellyfin and torrent are my friends. I still occasionally visit cinemas for movies I really want to watch with super perks.
I can’t be the only netizen here that has an ad stripped, 2x by default YouTube as their primary media consumption
YouTube videos feel agonizingly slow without being sped up.
I’m wondering why they would think one would pay to (still) see ads or have a lower resolution stream.
I’m pirating since I want to have a copy I can use without an internet connection without weird compression, ads, or low resolution. And not even everything is released on blu-ray these days.
Saw this coming when D+ started in 2019. Disappointed and not surprised.
Doubled in price since launch. I don’t know how Disney fucked this up this badly tbh. Their back library is unrivalled. They could have just launched at their intended price because people are more likely to pay that than they are if you get to that point by constant price increases.
LOL, so what? I used to never give disney money. I don’t now. But I didn’t used to too.
Seriously, why the fuck do people pay the mouse?
And before you all yell ARRRRR. Nope. No need to ARRRR. There is so much entertainment and diversion out there, take away all their IP and it still doesnt matter.
