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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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[–] superguy@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Lol, what?

For convenience and price, you simply can't beat free streaming sites.

[–] lud@lemm.ee 7 points 1 year ago (3 children)

The quality and experience is horrible though.

Torrenting always wins. But maybe you have poor internet and don't want to wait for a download (although you can watch a movie while downloading it.)

A Plex server with automatic downloading is way more convenient.

[–] EvacuateSoul@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

Usenet is even better. I have my *arrs set up to run both and tdarr transcodes everything to h265 10 bit.

[–] andy_wijaya_med@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm scared to do torrent man. I didn't care about it when I was in Indonesia. Now I live in Germany, and now I'm scared of doing it.

[–] lud@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago

Just use a good paid VPN and bind the VPN network Interface to your torrent client so that it's impossible to torrent without the VPN turned on.

[–] CrypticFawn@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 year ago

Not everyone wants to torrent.

[–] thoughtorgan@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

He's right, downloading gets you better encodes that prioritize quality over getting the smallest possible file to keep upload totals down.

But yeah you're also right, for 99% of people avoiding downloads is the right move.