It’s now explicitly against Disney Plus’s policies for Canadian subscribers to share passwords outside of their household.
Thank God I never bothered with their bullshit in the first place
See you on the high seas matey!
Keep the black flag flying high!
Just say your homeless
These services really seem to want me to uninstall them
Netflix had it, lost it due to a more competitive landscape. Now they all have reached about peak saturation and are struggling to hit those massive numbers where people are doing it willingly, they they think they can strong arm people into it. Streaming is all about convenience. Can I sit on the couch and put on something relatively engaging for a few that seems relatively reasonable? Ya? Cool. The further you move away from that model the more people start to look elsewhere. Pirating has gotten a lot, and I mean a LOT easier, and that arm is only so strong.
What if I GOTO a friend’s house and sign in using my own account, then tmforgetting it’s there, will I get in thenshit with Disney? This anti password sharing thing is dumb af.
Begun, the pirating has.
It never ended for those with brains.
Why pay for something you can get for free? Lol.
Unless you’re a sucker.
Personally I value my time above money, as it’s the one thing that you get a finite amount of.
With the ease of streaming going down, and the ease of pirating going up, I’m now back to pirating.
EDIT: now not NOT
Yeah, the only reason you’re in a position to do that is because so many others are not.
Also, it’s faster to stream something for free here https://fmoviesz.to/ than to add credit card information and create a new account for each streaming service that has something you want to see.
Like I said, people with more money than sense.
You can stream pretty much anything for free here: https://fmoviesz.to/
Just make sure you have uBlock Origin installed.
If you ever have issues, do an internet search for “free streaming sites reddit” and try one of those.
All studios had to do was follow the path of music streaming. It’s practically rid of piracy on a mass market because most streaming service has practically the same content. So it’s a matter of user experience they’re competing with, not the content they host.
They’d be losing even more money.
Netflix is profitable, Spotify never was. The differences between the realm of movies and music are so numerous that I won’t even bother listing them. Music and movies studios concerns are vastly differents, their economic realities are vastly differents, the product is too.
Guess it’s time to increase the range of my sonar
And radar.
May it go as well as the Netflix password-sharing crackdown (id est, followed by a flood of unsubscribes).
I hate Netflix as much as the next guy but let’s not shield our eyes from reality. Their move was actually very successful. A small percentage of people unsubscribed, but that number was dwindled by the number of new subscribers. Netflix basically proved that people for the most part don’t care and will subscribe just to keep watching. Of course Disney and others will follow suit after seeing that.
We don’t have the metrics yet to see if they stay subscribed. Look at it this way, Lemmy grows and shrinks by leaps and bounds every time reddit does something crazy. Same principle. This also doesn’t take into account people wanting to subscribe to finish a show and then unsubscribe afterwards.
The part that sucks is: It doesn’t matter.
So many companies are following the boiling frog philosophy these days because it works.
The general population will consume, consume, consume no matter how bad you make it for them. People don’t notice, people don’t care. If they do notice, they’ll shout at the sky for an hour then go watch the latest Disney movie on Disney+.
