After Netflix, Disney is cracking down on password sharing
Disney is preparing to crack down on password sharing on its streaming services after Netflix made a similar move a few months ago.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/1289467
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After Netflix, I am cracking down on paying for these services.
I did and now I am having a better user experience with a lot more content.
I would like to thank Netflix and now Disney for my newfound hobby for self-hosting. I am having a blast learning new marketable skills and improving my digital life.
Meanwhile, for completely unrelated reasons, I decided to mention that the https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/ instance is run by the former top mod of /r/piracy.
How do I add that one to this instance?
I'm not familiar with how Lemmy does it, I'm a kbin user myself, but I believe it should be similar between the two. You subscribe on a community-by-community basis, so for example you'd put "piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com" into the community search and then subscribe to it when it showed up in the results.
Edit: Indeed, when I visit https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/c/piracy there's a helpful bit of text in the sidebar:
You are not logged in. However you can subscribe from another Fediverse account, for example Lemmy or Mastodon. To do this, paste the following into the search field of your instance: !piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com
You can just simply search community you want with the instance their in specifically. example being: @memes@lemmy.world
I paid for Netflix, cancelled it and got Disney+ instead when they cracked down on password sharing. I am more than happy to end my subscription to Disney and go full pirate, I don't care and I live in Canada so I'll never face repercussions.
I'd love to support the creatives but seeing all these strikes it's not like the execs are paying them livable wages anyways. They complain about not making enough money on streaming then vote to increase just the executives pay by insane margins annually, I can see through your deception execs.
If you are going to hoard your wealth so will I, and when the economy dies cause we are all hoarding our pennies I won't feel bad for you while you look up from the bounds of the guillotine.
The insane greed is something I simply can't comprehend. Isn't there a point at which it's enough? It seems almost like a mental illness. Indefinite growth and infinitely increasing profit margins aren't possible. There's a limit to value and possible revenue. I don't know where all of this is going, but it can't be anywhere good, and I'm sure it will be violent. I seem to be in the minority, but I absolutely believe there is a point where a person has enough wealth and doesn't, perhaps even shouldn't, have more.
It's funny how everyone said they would give up on netflix once the whole password sharing was tossed out, but here we are with netflix hitting higher numbers and no one leaving. Every streaming service out there is gonna follow the same practice since it'll make them more money. If you dont agree with how they are doing things, then leave. It's the only way to influence their decisions.
Netflix did get screwed - their numbers increase is at low profit regions, meaning their operating costs go up while revenue increases only marginally compared to higher priced regions.
I did. I'm disappointed, but not surprised that it worked. I have no problems dropping Disney, too. The open sea is vast.
My threat hasn't changed. I split my time between three states and so far hasn't given me shit any time I switch location. The moment they do, I cancel. I'm mostly watching Paramount+ and Pluto anyway.
“K.”
** sails off into the high seas **
I love my Jellyfin server.
I'll stick with my "nothing a month" plan.
Netflix was the canary in the coal mines. Now I suspect we will see most if not all streaming services to follow in the coming months/year.
I'm not an economist, but what is the endgame here? Eventually, in their ideal delusions, every household has their own subscription. How do they intend to fuel growth then? Just more price increases? I don't understand this extreme capitalism. Can't a business just be happy to be profitable? Why do they focus so much on indefinite growth like some kind of tumor?
Take a look at modern Cable for some ideas. How about "commercial breaks" every 10 mins? Why not some "premium content" you have to pay extra for on top of your subscription e.g. want to watch Stranger Things? Sorry that's not included, you'll have to pay $7.99 extra per month.
Things will regress to the mean until someone else comes along and disrupts streaming, just like streaming did to cable. And then when everyone moves, that option will start getting shitty.
I know what you mean. Their DVD rental service is profitable, but they are killing it at the end of September anyway. I suppose it makes the CEO feel like a big shot to be able to say, "Sure it's making money, but I don't care about pocket change."
The other services need to read between the lines. Netflix picked up a ton of new subscribers in markets where their pricing is cheap.
Also, charging more when the programming is about to dry up seems like trying to stuff acorns in preparation for the upcoming winter.
I sure hope so.
My Plex server will continue forward on it's ongoing 12+ year long mission of not giving a fuck while continuing to provide me with all my content!
"Surely all the people who share subscriptions because they can't all afford 25 streaming services will each get their own accounts if we block password sharing, as opposed to just not using our services any more!"
That was what people said and then did the opposite.
"Netflix added 5.9 million new subscribers in the last three months – almost three times as many as analysts expected – after clamping down on households that were sharing their passwords."
Source: https://www.theguardian.com/media/2023/jul/19/netflix-subscriber-growth-password-sharing
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And people wonder why piracy is going up
Worked well for for Netflix, stock is up 30% since May.
If anyone can pull it off it's Disney. Parents will keep shelling out whatever Disney demands to keep their kids entertained.
123 movies is where its at
Have to wait for theater movies to come to my paid subscription (non-premium or whatever the name is) and now wont be able to split the costs with the rest of the family? Fuck that!
they saw all the lemmings get new Netflix accounts, and figured if the sheep were lining up to be shorn, they might as well get their share too
The market is so short sited. Sure, Netflix saw a bump in subscribers last quarter, but what were the cancellation numbers in the same quarter? I never got to see that info. I'm sure there's more than a handful of people that didn't mind spending $10 to finish the series they were binging, just to cancel the subscription shortly after. If you have more subscribers and more cancellations, does it really matter?
All that matters is how you frame your situation to your investors.
It helps that Disney is desperate for money, immediately if not sooner.
corporations always say they're desperate for money, since they pay out any money they have to shareholders and executive salaries, and whoops, look at that, desperate for money again, can you believe it, we just don't know how we could have avoided this desperation in the first place. it's the dril candles meme, and everyone keeps stoking it.
Said differently,
After Netflix, Disney is giving users permission to pirate all of its content
I guess it was inevitable when everyone and their dog rolled out a streaming service that eventually they'd have to squeeze subscribers more to stem the losses.
It seems like if the streaming platforms licensed each others exclusives in the same way no music streaming service has much exclusive music, there might be less profit but it might have been more stable for them.
Jesus, what's with the bot in the comments, do I even want to click on that picture?
Report and block, that's what I did. We don't need that nonsense around here
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