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submitted 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) by Waldemar_Firehammer@sh.itjust.works to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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.

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[-] Waldemar_Firehammer@sh.itjust.works 143 points 8 months ago

Yep, it feels like we're about to see the second wave of piracy, and more and more people are going to dust off their jolly Rogers. $80 was worth it for the catalog, but the price hike is completely unjustifiable. I've already canceled my sub, and I'm betting there will be plenty who do the same. A 75% increase is egregious.

[-] not_that_guy05@lemmy.world 72 points 8 months ago

About to see? My friend, we never stopped. Especially now, more people have started to look into self hosting.

I never stopped once I saw that the shit you pay for is not even yours anymore. Unless it's indie games, I just straight up download the game. Could care less about online gaming. (Thx ftp)

[-] ClopClopMcFuckwad@lemmy.world 15 points 8 months ago

Can you point me in the right direction of where to start? My last adventures of file sharing ended with Napster and Limewire.

[-] Taleya@aussie.zone 23 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Well theoretically...

  1. get a vpn

  2. deluge (others will pile in with apps no doubt)

  3. go to https://privacysavvy.com/security/torrents/best-torrent-sites/

Once you get your feet back under yourself, you can start looking at usenet and such

[-] Thwompthwomp@lemmy.world 4 points 8 months ago

Oh wow Usenet is still a good spot? That brings back good memories of sailing the seas.

[-] not_that_guy05@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago

Right Usenet and IRC all memory lane. Lol.

[-] Beaphe@lemmy.world 3 points 8 months ago

I agree with this guy.

Look into usenet, sabnzbd (or nzbget) and the ***arr programs.

Cost you a max $10/month, depending on how serious you are at hoarding, and how far back you want to go.

[-] Taleya@aussie.zone 2 points 8 months ago

If I were to do such a thing I would find myself quite happily served by the above without the need for a usenet acct, but of course this is an entirely theoretical discussion from the comfort of armchairs so reality may differ for various parties puffs pipe

[-] secret_j@kbin.social 4 points 8 months ago

You may be looking for 'Free Media. Heck Yeah'.

This is what I'm talking about. Welcome to the seven seas matey!

[-] Mothra@mander.xyz 1 points 8 months ago

I thought this community had a megathread pinned with info answering exactly that?

[-] Kepabar@startrek.website 13 points 8 months ago

Naw, lots of us stopped when Netflix streaming came in full swing.

[-] not_that_guy05@lemmy.world 3 points 8 months ago

Anime was still not big when Netflix came in. Foreign movies were also not available yet either. Programs, music, and all that stuff was still hard to get if it was not distributed by a US company.

[-] Kepabar@startrek.website 1 points 8 months ago

Yeah, but I didn't care about any of that.

[-] Semi-Hemi-Demigod@kbin.social 24 points 8 months ago

Disney made a movie called Crater that was removed from their catalog after just two weeks. It is only available via piracy.

I haven't watched it because that would be illegal, but it's almost like they want us to pirate. Heck, I would never have heard about Final Space if the animator hadn't raised a stink after it got removed from the WB catalog.

[-] quirzle@kbin.social 8 points 8 months ago

It is only available via piracy.

You can stream it on Amazon. Disney sucks, but there's no need to spread misinformation to make that point.

[-] uberkalden@lemmy.world 8 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

For a while it did disappear. It only recently popped up on Amazon

[-] Semi-Hemi-Demigod@kbin.social 4 points 8 months ago

To be honest I didn't look

[-] kamenlady@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago

Final Space also won't be available anywhere, forever.

[-] Semi-Hemi-Demigod@kbin.social 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

And yet somehow I remember watching the entire thing. Must be a Mengele Effect.

[-] mossy_capivara@midwest.social 19 points 8 months ago
[-] Cannibal_MoshpitV3@lemmy.world 15 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

SHIVER ME TIMBERS, THAR BE SOME BULLSHIT

...Second? We've had like, 4 or 5 waves by now since the Internet started.

[-] Nouveau_Burnswick@lemmy.world 3 points 8 months ago

And a bunch of waves before the internet too! In hindsight dubbing media duplication "piracy" in the middle of a romanticization of the golden age of sail was probably a bad call for the media execs.

[-] jeebus@kbin.social 3 points 8 months ago

Yo ho fiddle dee dee! It's a pirate life for me!

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