Disney is gouging customers with a near doubling of subscription costs.

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.

Fiivemacs,

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.

Venutianxspring,

I just cancelled my subscription. Would’ve cancelled it ages ago if it wasn’t for my wife, but it’s time for me to set sail on the high seas again

Nommer,

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?

Noxvento,
@Noxvento@lemmy.world avatar

Not me. Cancelled my subscription.

Waldemar_Firehammer,

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.

mossy_capivara,
@mossy_capivara@midwest.social avatar
Cannibal_MoshpitV3,

“SHIVER ME TIMBERS, THAR BE SOME BULLSHIT”

jeebus,
jeebus avatar

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

not_that_guy05,

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,
@ClopClopMcFuckwad@lemmy.world avatar

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

Waldemar_Firehammer,

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

SexualPolytope,
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secret_j,

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

Fatmaninalilcoat,
Mothra,
@Mothra@mander.xyz avatar

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

Taleya,

Well theoretically

  1. get a vpn
  2. deluge (others will pile in with apps no doubt)
  3. go to privacysavvy.com/security/…/best-torrent-sites/

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

Beaphe,

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,

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

Pregnenolone,

You don’t even need a vpn, just pirate the shit

Taleya,

eh, depends on your country. VPNs are worth the arse coverage.

Thwompthwomp,

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

not_that_guy05,

Right Usenet and IRC all memory lane. Lol.

Kepabar,

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

not_that_guy05,

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,

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

refurbishedrefurbisher,

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

Nouveau_Burnswick,

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.

Semi-Hemi-Demigod,
Semi-Hemi-Demigod avatar

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,
quirzle avatar

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.

Semi-Hemi-Demigod,
Semi-Hemi-Demigod avatar

To be honest I didn't look

uberkalden,

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

kamenlady,
@kamenlady@lemmy.world avatar

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

Semi-Hemi-Demigod,
Semi-Hemi-Demigod avatar

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

greyhaven7,

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

Windex007,

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

greyhaven7,

And reasonable copyright laws on IP

metaStatic,

Ha, good one.

guyrocket,
guyrocket avatar

Is physical media still available for most Disney stuff? How viable an alternative is that now?

BlackSkinnedJew, (edited )

What in the actual flying fuck…

satans_crackpipe,

The amazing thing is anyone ever paid to stream Disney…Disney adults are creepy and the corporation itself appears to be a child grooming & trafficking operation.

nyakojiru,
@nyakojiru@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

Streeeeeeeeemioooooooooo + debris

kylian0087,

Jellyfin+Sonarr+Radarr+Prowlarr+qbitt (And working and testing it with I2P)

JustZ,

These streaming companies are dreaming. I hope people will just stop streaming. There will be massive street markets for hard drives and thumb drives loaded with pirated content.

reverendsteveii,

Unsub’d. Fuck that noise, I really only use them for Simpsons reruns between movies I give a shit about. So now I’ll steal the Simpsons and the movies. They overplayed their hand here.

InvaderDJ,

I already cancelled my subscription. I’m going to the subscription hopping plus piracy route now for D+.

DreBeast,

The prices change for the consumers. What never changes is the pay for Disney executives and shareholders. Their pockets of cash always go up and up 📈📈📈

BmeBenji,

The issue with price-hikes for subscriptions to me seems like it was always inevitable, and a no-brainer to solve. Disney, Netflix, and Hulu have no reason to lower their costs as long as people set-and-forget their subscriptions. The obvious solution is to stop subscribing and to buy a single month from a single service when you have a number of shows/movies you want to watch.

Paying $20 once per year to watch all the newest Marvel and Star Wars shows and movies in the span of a month at the cost of avoiding spoilers at release is a solid deal if you ask me. Paying $20 every month because you want to feel like you “own” the library of Disney’s media is a horrible decision.

HamSwagwich,

Do you want pirates? This is how you get pirates.

DigitalFrank,

Double the price and if fewer than half unsubscribe, there is a net gain in revenue.

physicswizard,

And a drop in costs too since their system has to support less users.

Kodemystic,

oh no… x’O

rchive,

Just canceling and not watching things is also an option. There’s so much stuff out there to do, you’ll probably never get bored.

loki_d20,

Thanks for the reminder to cancel! Ridiculous price for the amount of content they put out.

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