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[–] [email protected] 79 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Up Next: minimum subscription lengths to prevent users from juggling streaming services. No sir they’re not contracts.

This is fast becoming cable with extra steps.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

This is the most logical next step. Probably 3m, 6m,12m to make it somewhat affordable to do in single larger payments.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

Some already give you a 30% "discount" (i.e. the regular price is just higher) if you sign up for an entire year.

[–] [email protected] 49 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago

It’s gonna motivate me to finally get a seedbox and buy some media server hardware

[–] [email protected] 47 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The enshittification continues, but it doesn't affect me at all. Piracy the way to go nowadays that all streaming services suck. [email protected]

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (4 children)

I don't know this for sure but I suspect world admins probably don't want you linking that since their users can't even view it.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

what am I not getting here... you nor OP are on world, what's it matter?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The community were on is on lemmy.world

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

ah OK, thanks.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Maybe they'll just filter it out with edits like they do with swear words :/

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's ml, and it's specifically slurs, not all swears.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Hmmm wonder if they copied that to sublinks or are making their own version there. Really only item I found in the repo that had much in it

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

You're not registered on lemmy.world. But I think everyone can see the link.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Technically it should't be against the rules, since I don't link directly to any pirated content.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Neither do the piracy communities but lemmy.world blocks them. So I guess they probably don't care since no user of theirs can now navigate there anyway.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

IIRC correctly that was the reason they stated for blocking the community.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago

I guess it's a good thing I already cancelled last time they raised prices.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago

What's the point of the regional locks, password sharing blocking, disallowing of third-party clients and especially DRM when at the end of the day I can just type any movie into my torrent client and hours later it would be on my disk shared with everyone in family with access to my Jellyfin instance?
I really want to legally watch, but if their will is to disengurage me so much then okey.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

Cool, looks like I have until June to convince my wife and kids to drop Disney+.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

I'm sharing a friend's account because she offered me. But I've only been using it for a handfull of shows. I guess I'll just download those instead.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Curious to see how they approach this with their partnership with Verizon. I get it through a family plan, seems like it will be impossible for them to regulate who is/isn't part of a phone plan, since that could legitimately change at any time. Imagine they won't pursue it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

They could still limit the number of simultaneously logged in devices for a family plan. Verizon would know how many lines are associated with the plan.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Jokes on them. We already canceled our service back when they raised prices.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Assume for a moment the platform providers are in a game of chicken, continually eating costs in the hope of soaking up subscribers from their (at some point) defunct competitors. Every year this competition continues, the victor needs to make increasingly outrageous changes to the service offering in order to bridge the profitability gap. Or perhaps they are betting that a chunk of savings will come from reduced spend on rights, in a market with fewer bidders for programming?

Are investors in the conglomerates even agitated yet?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

What’d I do?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

What do they mean from June? Are they going to retroactively charge people? Or they mean in the future, so people have time to cancel now.