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.

  • superguy@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    Lol, what?

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

    • lud@lemm.ee
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      1 year ago

      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.

      • EvacuateSoul@lemmy.world
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        1 year ago

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

      • andy_wijaya_med@lemmy.world
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        1 year ago

        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.

        • lud@lemm.ee
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          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.

    • thoughtorgan@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      He’s right, downloading gets you better encodes that prioritize quality over getting the smallest possible file to keep upload totals down.

      But yeah you’re also right, for 99% of people avoiding downloads is the right move.