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Disney is gouging customers with a near doubling of subscription costs. (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by Waldemar_Firehammer@sh.itjust.works to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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Disney is raking its customers over the coals with a 75% price hike for their annual subscription (originally $80.) People wonder why piracy is on the rise. Multiple commenters are saying I'm off base about the 75% price increase. My payment less than a year ago was $79.99. Here's the proof.

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[-] Fiivemacs@lemmy.ca 300 points 11 months ago

Lol expect MORE and MORE hikes. They know how much money you have, they want it all and they will not stop raising the cost because y'all keep paying it.

[-] Waldemar_Firehammer@sh.itjust.works 143 points 11 months ago

Yep, it feels like we're about to see the second wave of piracy, and more and more people are going to dust off their jolly Rogers. $80 was worth it for the catalog, but the price hike is completely unjustifiable. I've already canceled my sub, and I'm betting there will be plenty who do the same. A 75% increase is egregious.

[-] not_that_guy05@lemmy.world 72 points 11 months ago

About to see? My friend, we never stopped. Especially now, more people have started to look into self hosting.

I never stopped once I saw that the shit you pay for is not even yours anymore. Unless it's indie games, I just straight up download the game. Could care less about online gaming. (Thx ftp)

[-] ClopClopMcFuckwad@lemmy.world 15 points 11 months ago

Can you point me in the right direction of where to start? My last adventures of file sharing ended with Napster and Limewire.

[-] Taleya@aussie.zone 23 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Well theoretically...

get a vpn
deluge (others will pile in with apps no doubt)
go to https://privacysavvy.com/security/torrents/best-torrent-sites/

Once you get your feet back under yourself, you can start looking at usenet and such

[-] Thwompthwomp@lemmy.world 4 points 11 months ago

Oh wow Usenet is still a good spot? That brings back good memories of sailing the seas.

[-] not_that_guy05@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

Right Usenet and IRC all memory lane. Lol.

[-] Beaphe@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago

I agree with this guy.

Look into usenet, sabnzbd (or nzbget) and the ***arr programs.

Cost you a max $10/month, depending on how serious you are at hoarding, and how far back you want to go.

[-] Taleya@aussie.zone 2 points 11 months ago

If I were to do such a thing I would find myself quite happily served by the above without the need for a usenet acct, but of course this is an entirely theoretical discussion from the comfort of armchairs so reality may differ for various parties puffs pipe

[-] SexualPolytope@lemmy.sdf.org 10 points 11 months ago

https://wiki.dbzer0.com/piracy/

[-] Fatmaninalilcoat@lemmy.one 6 points 11 months ago

https://rentry.org/megathread good megathread from r/piracy

https://github.com/recloudstream/cloudstream

[-] secret_j@kbin.social 4 points 11 months ago

You may be looking for 'Free Media. Heck Yeah'.

[-] Waldemar_Firehammer@sh.itjust.works 4 points 11 months ago

This is what I'm talking about. Welcome to the seven seas matey!

[-] Mothra@mander.xyz 1 points 11 months ago

I thought this community had a megathread pinned with info answering exactly that?

[-] Kepabar@startrek.website 13 points 11 months ago

Naw, lots of us stopped when Netflix streaming came in full swing.

[-] not_that_guy05@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago

Anime was still not big when Netflix came in. Foreign movies were also not available yet either. Programs, music, and all that stuff was still hard to get if it was not distributed by a US company.

[-] Kepabar@startrek.website 1 points 11 months ago

Yeah, but I didn't care about any of that.

[-] Semi-Hemi-Demigod@kbin.social 24 points 11 months ago

Disney made a movie called Crater that was removed from their catalog after just two weeks. It is only available via piracy.

I haven't watched it because that would be illegal, but it's almost like they want us to pirate. Heck, I would never have heard about Final Space if the animator hadn't raised a stink after it got removed from the WB catalog.

[-] quirzle@kbin.social 8 points 11 months ago

It is only available via piracy.

You can stream it on Amazon. Disney sucks, but there's no need to spread misinformation to make that point.

[-] uberkalden@lemmy.world 8 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

For a while it did disappear. It only recently popped up on Amazon

[-] Semi-Hemi-Demigod@kbin.social 4 points 11 months ago

To be honest I didn't look

[-] kamenlady@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

Final Space also won't be available anywhere, forever.

[-] Semi-Hemi-Demigod@kbin.social 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

And yet somehow I remember watching the entire thing. Must be a Mengele Effect.

[-] mossy_capivara@midwest.social 19 points 11 months ago

[-] Cannibal_MoshpitV3@lemmy.world 15 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

"SHIVER ME TIMBERS, THAR BE SOME BULLSHIT"

[-] jeebus@kbin.social 3 points 11 months ago

Yo ho fiddle dee dee! It's a pirate life for me!

[-] refurbishedrefurbisher@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 11 months ago

...Second? We've had like, 4 or 5 waves by now since the Internet started.

[-] Nouveau_Burnswick@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago

And a bunch of waves before the internet too! In hindsight dubbing media duplication "piracy" in the middle of a romanticization of the golden age of sail was probably a bad call for the media execs.

[-] greyhaven7@lemmy.world 29 points 11 months ago

They'll just keep hiking it until the profit curve dips.

[-] Windex007@lemmy.world 38 points 11 months ago

This is exactly why publicly funded media is essential to a healthy media market.

[-] greyhaven7@lemmy.world 23 points 11 months ago

And reasonable copyright laws on IP

[-] metaStatic@kbin.social 6 points 11 months ago

Ha, good one.

[-] Nommer@sh.itjust.works 18 points 11 months ago

Seriously. What is it going to take to get people to cancel? Stop paying overpriced fees until they bring them back down to cost that's worth it. Otherwise they'll just keep getting scammed and never stop. I just don't get it. Don't they understand how economics work or something? Or do they feel like they HAVE to have it?