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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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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Don't use streaming services they suck.

If you're gonna pirate at least do it properly, by downloading.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Lol, what?

For convenience and price, you simply can't beat free streaming sites.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (3 children)

The quality and experience is horrible though.

Torrenting always wins. But maybe you have poor internet and don't want to wait for a download (although you can watch a movie while downloading it.)

A Plex server with automatic downloading is way more convenient.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Usenet is even better. I have my *arrs set up to run both and tdarr transcodes everything to h265 10 bit.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm scared to do torrent man. I didn't care about it when I was in Indonesia. Now I live in Germany, and now I'm scared of doing it.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Just use a good paid VPN and bind the VPN network Interface to your torrent client so that it's impossible to torrent without the VPN turned on.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Not everyone wants to torrent.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Never had Disnkey, so this is more about Netflix. Back at the beginning, I didn't mind paying a fair price for a service that made discovery and streaming easy and convenient. Plus subscriptions going to fund more interesting content? Amazing! Yeah, it's a bit of platform capitalism, but the fees were reasonable and they spread the wealth in a way I agreed with.

I'm still not against a service that keeps its fees reasonable for what it's providing.