Disney+, Hulu and ESPN+ will start cracking down on password sharing | CNN Business::Disney is banning password sharing on its streaming services, following in the footsteps of competitor Netflix.
Arrrr ye mateys.
I really don’t want to. I work in the film industry. I feel like 🏴☠️is like cutting the branch you’re on for me but I can’t afford to keep all those subscriptions, especially when the studios are fuxking us with sand on salaries and making the trikes last all year long. So far, I started soft with movie-web.app for some shows. If they keep on pushing us I will break. It’s not stealing if the other solution is racket.
I don’t like doing it, and I would be thrilled to throw my money at a single service that allows me to stream anything I want at high bitrate 4K. I’d actually be willing to pay a pretty high premium for that. Money is not the issue, it’s the quality of service. I genuinely wish there was a way to pay for a service that benefitted the film industry while providing a quality service to me. Until that’s the case, I’ll continue sailing on a ship that gives me the highest-possible quality content.
Hell yeah. I’d pay $300 a month if they provide everything over 6 months old and never take shit out of the catalog.
I’d be super happy not to have to maintain my own catalogs.
Yo man let’s not go crazy, $300 a year would be on the high end of acceptable for that. The costs to keep more data available when you own the licenses are quite low as a percentage of total operations, so keeping old content up should be the norm instead of something to be lauded. You don’t get a cookie for base competency.
Oh, I’d be willing to pay less. If you have full cable, balls to the wall and most of the streaming services you could get up around that range. It’s ridiculous amount a month to pay for entertainment. But if you look at what you get for that, It’s a 300 lb turd with a couple of gems here and there. If they all put their licensing catalogs together in one place they could probably make a hell of a lot more money than trying to nickel and dime everybody individually.
I subscribed to a pack for “most streaming services in my country” because I earn enough money now and wanted to try being honest. But I will very probably not renew it, I pay 50€/month, but still use Plex almost as often :
- The web apps suck, the mobile ones are often worse (laggy, contrast changes while watching, lack of features …)
- Some shows are not available in a decent quality : in France we have Kaamelott, owned by Canal+, they probably made an intern upload the episodes so it’s only available at 360p
- They try to control what you watch : the “continue watching” section of Netflix has been randomly placed between line 1 and 4 for a while now, seemingly just to push their bulshit recommendation algorithms that will me watch yet another cheap copycat
- Some “premium” movies are not part of any subscription (eg. Puss In Boots 2)
- Some show may not be available anywhere when shady exclusivity contracts expire (eg. “Au service de la France” was only available through piracy last time a friend tried to watch it) …
Sooooo … I was ok with the services sucking but I can’t be okay with them so obviously not trying to improve.
It’s also incredible how I was pirating everything else when I was a teenager (video games, books, audio, …) and managed to stop almost immediately when I received my first salary.
You pay for x number of simultaneous streams it shouldn’t fucking matter who the hell are using it, it’s still x number of simultaneous streams.
But hey streaming was good while it lasted and a VPN is cheaper after all.
And this is why I’m using Plex more
They don’t realize that they don’t have the power of Netflix (who this unfortunately worked for)
I shut down my subscriptions to every service last year. The only one I have is prime that I pay for because the streaming was a bonus on top of what I was originally paying for. And PlutoTV and Tubi because they’re free.
Want Disney explicitly cool about it before?
No they weren’t. It’s just a front to get you to buy in and accept them as the good guys. Corps just bait and switch. All that matters is stock ori e. Whatever makes it go up is what they’ll do.
Do so, because the ones who do want it will cancel, and the others will keep paying. its to stupid to not react on these kind of stuff, like we do, and keep paying to watch series that last 2-3 season max + ads + price increase and no password sharing. Don’t you see it?
Yo ho ho and a bottle of rum.
What do you do with a drunken sailor?
Interestingly enough, 2/3 of those are subs I dropped within the last year or so based on a lack of quality/content for what they cost (never bothered with ESPN, NHL games are easy to find). Seems like streaming is starting to collapse a lot quicker than TV did.
Likewise, just cancelled Disney+ and Hulu last month, along with Paramount+, and Netflix.
Only still have AppleTV+ because it’s still cheap. And then Max because it’s included in our cell service, and Amazon for the shipping, but I don’t really use either, and am looking into the feasibility of dropping Prime, if I can convince the wife.
AppleTV+ is still cheap where you live? Here in Europe it went from 4,99€ to 6,99€ and I think they just raised it to 9,99€. They have some great shows but VERY little content all in all. And at a doubled price which now matches all the other services (all around 10€ each) it is just not worth it IMO.
I might get it for one binge-month in the future just to watch Severance season two though. Or… just get it elsewhere…
Not sure. It’s $9.99 normally but I think she’s got a discount somehow (teacher? Or some kind of bundle?)
Good luck.
