Disney says it will crack down on password sharing, following Netflix’s lead
Disney says it will crack down on password sharing, following Netflix’s lead
Disney CEO Bob Iger said Wednesday Disney will begin rolling out a crackdown on password sharing for its streaming services next year.
The company will roll out tactics to mitigate password sharing in 2024. While Iger said Disney should see some effects from the rollout in 2024, the initiatives to prevent password sharing won’t be completed next year.
Netflix showed that they could get away with it. Expect all streaming services to follow to appease the almighty shareholders.
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 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 🏴☠️
Disney has very little worth paying for unless you're a parent. I won't be paying higher prices.
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That’s ok Disney doesn’t make any good content these days anyway if you have all their old stuff that’s enough
Because that worked out so well for Netflix...
I know we all PW share, but I have no moral argument why we should be able to PW share. Never understood why so many people get pissed off about these crackdowns. Good TV is kind of expensive to make.
Edit: in this thread, people that don't understand the economics of TV and media.
With Netflix, my argument was that they only let me get 4k with a four screen package, I'm one man in one flat, I don't need four screens so why shouldn't I be able to hand out my other three?
It’s the same as with youtube premium - do I need another music service? No, I just don’t want to have no ads (I don’t have it, just an example).
They just bloat up the package with stuff, so it looks like it’s much and is of “value”, when you are actually paying for a lot of stuff you don’t want/need… but of course they charge you for all of it.
That argument would work if most of the media companies profits went to the people who worked on the show and not billionaire executives
1- If I'm paying to stream on more than 1 TV, I should get to choose which tv.
2- Disney makes billions, if not trillions, of dollars a year... their tv sucks.
They making enough money bro. They have more then enough profit margin from one subscription to make all their shitty originals.
No. They don't. Please share evidence otherwise.
