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.

  • Gazumi
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    272 years ago

    Many of us who had settled on land be thinking of travels

  • @[email protected]
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    492 years 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.

    • @[email protected]
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      32 years 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.

      • @[email protected]
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        2 years 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.

    • @[email protected]
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      12 years 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.

      • @[email protected]
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        22 years 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!

  • @[email protected]
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    292 years ago

    Twice the price and half the quality you would expect. So glad I dropped my subscription.

  • @[email protected]
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    32 years ago

    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.

  • @[email protected]
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    12 years ago

    Oh man I got to tell my mom about this, she’s going to be so angry that she has to pay more

    • @[email protected]
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      22 years ago

      It’s coming. I’ve been using my sisters D+ account, but she got notice that they’re cutting off account sharing as of the end of October (in Canada at least), so back to sailing the high seas for me.

  • @[email protected]
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    762 years ago

    I’m not defending them, but this was clearly always the plan. It was obvious they intended to enter the market just under competitor prices to establish a foothold and then later charge more and reset the industry standard in doing so.

    Again, I’m not saying it doesn’t suck, because it does, but this was clearly the Disney+ game plan since day 1

  • Tygr
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    2 years ago

    Streaming platforms are all joining in on the enshitification process.

    Soon, people will join one service for one month then switch to the next.

    After that, they will all begin contracts to “lock in the price.” Possibly in bundle agreements with multiple providers.

    That’s when the full transition to $120+ cable costs returns, but in streaming format.

  • Nakura
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    252 years ago

    Stuff like this is the reason I built a NAS a few years ago.

  • @[email protected]
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    42 years ago

    Why do we care about this on a piracy community? I never cared about prices and fees I don’t have to pay for anyway! Tough luck for those of you how sub to Disney.

  • roofuskit
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    62 years ago

    Not sure how you missed out last time they increased the subscription cost. You must have renewed immediately before the increase from $80. That said, I’m out. The Android TV app has been having annoying audio issues and I’ve already cancelled every other service because of pricing.