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.

  • errer@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Your local library has a copy of every kids Disney movie you could possibly want. No need to pay em for access to something your tax dollars pay for. And if you wanna go below board: just rip em and keep em forever.

    • _dev_null@lemmy.zxcvn.xyz
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      1 year ago

      What physical media do they have available?

      Back when netflix first started, I subscribed to the 4 dvd plan. I’d rip and burn a copy of every movie that came through the house (if we liked it, that is). I was one of the few friends that had a DVD-R drive, and would make copies on request.

      I still have an old case logic disk book completely filled with burnt dvds. I just built my first computer that doesn’t have a removable-disk drive, and with that, I no longer have any way to play dvds/blu-rays. Not one disc player in the whole house.

      • ReallyActuallyFrankenstein@lemmynsfw.com
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        1 year ago

        I built my last computer during the pandemic, and put in a blu-ray writer (obviously DVD and CD backwards compatible) just for legacy purposes. It was actually hard to find a case with a 5.25" front bay. In two years I haven’t used it once.

        It’s a shame - digital media DRM is going to escalate quickly once there is no physical media sold, since all our PCs have TPM chips now, so this may not turn out well for us - but I’ve accepted it’s inevitable at this point.

    • superguy@lemm.ee
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      1 year ago

      You can also stream all of them for free here: https://fmoviesz.to/

      Just make sure you have uBlock Origin installed.

      Not sure why the top voted comments are always stupid advice like “libraries” or “plex servers.”

      We’ve had the solutions to these problems right in front of us for years. All we need to do is realize them.

      Use your brain, not your wallet.

      • errer@lemmy.world
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        1 year ago

        Cause they aren’t the random shady website you posted and your tax dollars pay for the library, so you might as well use it!