All this password sharing crackdown is fucking frustrating.
My MIL doesn’t watch a lot of TV. She doesn’t have any cable or streaming services. But she does watch my kids a lot, so we have my Disney, Netflix, and Paramount set up on her TV.
So, what? Get the kids tablets? I know they shouldn’t watch a lot of TV, and my MIL is a saint and keeps them wicked busy most the day. She needs to plop them down and chill for a minute, especially when their baby cousin is there too.
Are there any specific series your kids are interested in? If there isn’t maybe you can cancel one or two subs, remove the apps on TV and the kids may not even notice, depending on their age. (I am assuming 5-10 based on your comment) D+ has Marvel and Star Wars but what does Paramount have appealing to kids? Maybe you can get Nickolodeon (apparently part of Paramount) from satellite.
Quality won’t increase relative to official methods because it’s already more or less at parity with them. If the file you watch is tagged as a WEB-DL, in most cases it’s identical to the file you’d be streaming via official methods in terms of quality. It’s just remuxed into an open container format like .mkv (the video and audio streams are losslessly copied into a file format which can be shared)
Pirate rips of streaming content is already 100% quality. The files are literally the audio and video data repackaged into mkv files with no re-encoding. 4K Dolby Vision rips with atmos audio tracks are now common.
The only way the pirate copies will get better is if the streaming services start offering higher quality streams.
And this is why we should’ve all cancelled Netflix when they began cracking down on password sharing. If we let them win, it’ll become normalized across the entire industry, like what is happening here.
I did, but yeah not enough others did. Yet when the spotify price went up and I kept it, because it’s one service that has everything. There’s a ton of value in me not having to hunt around and find every show I want to watch across 8 different shitty streaming apps.
Hey, Spotify CEO here. What is your pain barrier for our product? 15$? 20? 30? Dont worry, we will get there. Just stay subscribed and the salami tactic will do its magic.
Literally did this with netflix as soon as they announced and gave the lock on pass sharing as the reason… I have emby and some auto usenet downloaders so never hurt for content. I still have Disney as it was a 1 year free with partners phone upgrade but that will be cancelled once it’s chargeable.
I’d argue that Disney+ was already enshittification, as Disney used to have their content on Netflix but they decided they had to lose a bunch of money to force people into another subscription. This is enshittification squared.
People already bitch that Disney isn't worth the current price and they want to make it cost that much more?!
I think it's well worth the $80/yr annual sub, but I'm not sure how much higher I'd consider before just dropping it (and the article doesn't say what the annual price is raising to). It's basically only Star Wars & Marvel content (that I watch on it) and I believe they're cutting back on both, so, not giving a real good value proposition here for someone that's been subscribed since day one.
Combined with his comments on the strikes and he's making a compelling argument for cancellation.
Fuck this guy. I'm not so much concerned about this as I am the way he's cornholing his writers and actors. As for the price increase of Didn't-ney Plus, that's what DVDs are for, right?
They’d sell more memberships if they reduced prices. All of these billionaire companies could make a few million less and help folks out. I love the Star Wars stuff, but I’ll pull out because of this crap.
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