Netflix showed that they could get away with it. Expect all streaming services to follow to appease the almighty shareholders.
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Not with me, they didn't. Being able to help out a few friends was the last thing keeping me on Netflix, so with the account sharing restrictions I cancelled, bought a lifetime Plex pass (which was more just to show my support for them not being a shitty company), and now I just use my PC as a media server and pirate all my shit. And I can still share it all with friends!
Sadly you and I are in the minority, if I remember rightly account numbers actually went up with the crackdown.
Nice! Monkey D Luffy could learn a thing or three from you.
We cancelled Netflix about a year ago for good - which made me setup stuff like Sonarr. Without Netflix being dicks I wouldn't have proper pirating infrastructure...
While I still pay for Disney+ we're also throwing everything we care about into sonarr - so if they do something stupid I'll just cancel and still have everything I want.
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I pay for everything but movies and TV shows. Last time I bought TV shows, the service went under and I lost it all. Seasons and seasons and seasons gone. It's not 1982, I shouldn't have to deal with freaking discs.
So the only reliable thing is my Emby server. One tap from playing it on any device in the house.
And I don't have a blu ray drive in my PC, my case doesn't even support one (again, is it 1982???) so buying and ripping my own discs is out of the picture.
Buying movies and TV shows gives you the worst experience and punishes you. Not to mention almost every damn show these days are cancelled, and I don't think I've seen a movie with a satisfactory ending in like a decade.
I haven't pirated a game in over a decade. I have Netflix and Prime subscriptions... I have 4tb of shows and movies on my NAS because fuck subscribing to every damn streaming service.
4tb was my first big milestone.
Currently at 68ish out of 78tb and there’s another 16tb drive waiting to get hooked up once I’m getting full.
It got ridiculous pretty quickly but I don’t know if I’ll ever go back.
I mean what's wrong with having drives still attached? I feel personally attacked cause I have a blu ray AND multiple dvd drives for retro games on disks. Yeah I could ISO them but meh.
I have an external bluray drive I basically only use to rip disc's.
I had to get a graphics card for my plex server to handle the number of my friends transcoding because of the Netflix password crackdown.
Tell your friends if they want to stream from your server they need to be able to direct stream
I tried. Even if the direct play is 1080p, they still transcode and they don't know the difference. They just ask "why is it buffering so much". The luxury about netflix is that it handled all the quality control with zero fiddling. I screech every time I see the little HW symbol.
To the high seas then!
I have Disney with my cell plan and the streaming service is so bad that I hit the high seas to watch their content in HD, with no buffering.
Thank fuck I'm not on Disney+. Fucking piece of shit streaming service.
Can't remember the last time I used a subscription service to watch a show anymore lol 💀.
Even less reason to ig 🏴☠️
That’s ok Disney doesn’t make any good content these days anyway if you have all their old stuff that’s enough