Disney’s password-sharing crackdown has begun

I cancelled all my subscription services today and fired up the ol' abandoned Plex server. I was paying for the convenience for awhile to be honest, but I'm over it now. Internet and a VPN are mostly all anybody needs anymore.

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.

Guess it's time to increase the range of my sonar

Begun, the pirating has.

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.

See you on the high seas matey!

it's just so obnoxious they're pretending they get to charge more for using a website somewhere else. simultaneous streams, sure - at least that makes sense that it's something the company would know and reasonably suffer from. but the idea that you're formally tethered to somewhere is so fucking invasive and fundamentally wrong. it's the INTERNET you sick fucks. it's not like they're paying extra shipping because someone has a family in alaska.

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.

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Arr, the wind she blows

I cancelled my Netflix the moment that announced their new account sharing policy, which, looking back on it was probably too early for it to count as protest. I don't personally share my account, but I knew that if they were able to pull it off that every other streaming service and probably other services would do the same thing.

Consumers can beat these large corporations, but only when they stand up for themselves. See Wizards of the Coast and Unity. Unfortunately Netflix subscribers did not, and now this is the new standard.

Ahh, may they join Netflix in their journey to 0% then negative revenue. These corporations look at their subscribers with disdain and assume no matter what they do, subscribers will be dumb enough to be treated poorly and still pay them. Netflix is losing subscribers who pay $16 - $20 and replacing them with those that pay half as much. Then they shout from the rooftops that they are gaining subscribers. They've set their trajectory towards their doom. Watching them all burn will be great.

Do it like me: never subscribe! Ez gg

Disney+ quality has been decreasing lately. If it weren't for huge Disney animated movies collection there that the kids play on repeat, half of the people wouldn't bother with Disney+.

Hoist the anchors, and man the sails! ❤️

Thank God I never bothered with their bullshit in the first place

Jokes on them, if (when) this reaches the US, I'm going to stop regularly subscribing. The only reason I usually have a subscription is for my nephews in another state. If I'm no longer subscribing for them, I'm just going to subscribe when a show I want to watch is on, so 1-3 months a year.

May it go as well as the Netflix password-sharing crackdown (id est, followed by a flood of unsubscribes).

Time to start pirating

Verizon gave me $30 towards my iPhone to cancel Disney+, so…

Cant you just set things up with a router to tunnel your disney+ connection through a device at your family members house so you streaming from 1500 miles away looks like its coming from their house?

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.

Just say your homeless

I thought this was about internal security policy until I remembered that they have a streaming service.

This is the best summary I could come up with:

Starting on November 1st, Disney Plus will begin restricting password sharing.

Disney has not provided many details on how it plans to enforce this policy — its email merely states that “we’re implementing restrictions on your ability to share your account or login credentials outside of your household”.

The announcement comes over a month after Disney’s Q3 earnings call, where CEO Bob Iger said that the company was “actively exploring” ways to address shared accounts.

Disney Plus is just the latest streaming service to attempt to tackle password sharing.

Netflix accounts are restricted based on a user’s IP address; subscribers, depending on the plan they select, have the option of adding additional members to their accounts for an additional fee.

But hey, if it’s any consolation: Canadian users now have access to the cheaper ad-supported tier.

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This guy looks like he’s gonna try and have an intellectual convo with Dr Jones, even though he’s sold his integrity to the Nazi’s at the chance to unleash the true evil power of streaming services. But Dr Jones won’t have it and this guy will be whipped milk before he’s done. The end

I get Disney+ because I got some deal from my ISP. Outside of Andor, there is no series worth watching on Disney+. I've watched through all of the Marvel stuff I care about (or I already own my favorites like Guardians of the Galaxy). If I wasn't getting it for free I certainly wouldn't pay for it.

I'd order the big streaming services like this: Apple+, Amazon Prime, HBO Max, Netflix, Hulu, then Disney+ way down that list.

I think Apple+, even with a limited catalogue has some of the best content going.

These services really seem to want me to uninstall them

who subbed to d+ anyways? i can understand if it's for younger kids with the cartoons and all, but the rest is just horribly bad. maybe the old fox catalogue could cut them some slack, but even xfiles and 24 could save them on the long run. star wars and marvel are dead, too.