Disney+ has started cracking down on password sharing in the US

There are millions of people who can afford $140/yr. They just don't complain on forums.

Most people don't even know how piracy works unless it gets as mainstream as Napster did. You tell them about torrenting, -arr programs, debrid services, and they'll have no clue what you're talking about.

What does surprise me is that people actually pay their own subscription for these platforms. Netflix had a win in profit/revenue. I’m surprised that these people did not go for the Piracy method even though, they complain about:

Most people don't like change. Maybe they have a habit of switching on Netflix daily during dinner or something. There's also a big "Netflix" button on their remotes and their TV's homescreen, which serves as a constant reminder. They probably even have the app on their phones. All of this leads to mental conditioning and addiction, it's now a part of their daily lives. Humans are a creature of habit, and it's hard to break out of a routine ingrained over several years.

Piracy could be a option for some people, but it's still either too technical, or not as convenient, for the average Joe. Sure, there are even websites you could simply go to without installing any app, but most people won't bother with that - they just want to hit a single button on their remote/TV and watch something, without needing to go to some website, a website which may eventually stop working.

You'll find that most people would prefer to take the path of least resistance, even if it means paying (more) money. Don't forget that even pirates may sometimes pay money to make things easier - eg usenet/seedbox/debrid users - and that's simply because they too would prefer to take the path of least resistance, even if it means being in the ironic situation of paying to watch pirated content. So it's not too hard to imagine why normal people would just prefer to cough up the extra cash for Netflix and continue with their lives, routines unchanged.

Of it were up to me I'd drop it in a heart beat. I'm outvoted by kids grandkids and wife who watch random things throughout the day.

I barely watch TV these days and would happily hooky the odd things I do want to see

Also good piracy requires understanding torrenting and navagating the 7 seas with a vpn. And know what a good/bad torrent looks like.

My parents LOVE to tell all their friends and family how I can magically get any tv show or movie for them through the computer 5$ a month without all that subscription crap which gets everyones hopes up and I have to gently let them down that it requires a bit more computer knowhow than a regular non-tech person ]possesses.

If you think you can properly educate people on safely torrenting be my guest but for most people who have neither the time or desire to learn computer nerd stuff instead they choose the simple and convinent option of just coughing up dollars

You have to realize you are in a minority of people who know computers and have the knowhow to find high quality pirated content. Many go for easy sites like fmovies but those are riddled with ads and the files themselves are often not the best quality. But most don't even know about those. In fact most people don't even use a computer to consume their media and are reliant on streaming apps.

Too early though. Now you won't show in their metrics as someone who cancelled due to the crackdown

(takes a sip out of 1999 The Phantom Menace Taco Bell promotional cup)

I don't know what you're talking about.

no one's ever told me it's abnormally large before - I'm blushing!

I don't understand why you'd pay for this unless you like the content

They have a good collection of movies and series. They've also started diversifying, bringing in some anime, some documentaries...

The STAR section has some good things.

Just get the service for a month and drop it after catching up on the things you want. I keep it so I can watch bluey with my daughter, but I rotate most of my services.

I tried out Disney and it came with Hulu. All I watched was Hulu. Both cancelled.

And now Percy Jackson

So my child, who is not old enough for their own account, will now no longer be able to watch Disney+ while attending school at their residential academy 400 miles away. Just like Netflix. And just like Netflix, my subscription will be canceled the moment they try to block them from logging in.

I only subscribe to watch X-files and Always Sunny. Couldn't care less about Marvel, Star Wars or Disney stuff.

Or my child, who shares a house with my ex wife in his laptop that I paid for...

The people who said they'd cancel probably did, they were just the minority.

Everybody said they’d cancel Netflix over it

What's probably more likely is that the "everybody" that you heard from was an incredibly unrepresentative sample of people from a bubble of nerdy tech enthusiasts.

Great news to be honest. I hope disney sees a similar spike in profits so they can make more great shows for me to pirate.

Ironically I dropped Netflix for the Hulu Disney package because of password sharing and I was the one paying.

Yep. I cancelled but all of my family on my account got their own

I cancelled. It's just that I'm a small minority of people. The number that cancelled was apparently less than the people who signed up for their own account. Oh well. Netflix wasn't that good anymore anyway. I barely used that app. Disney Plus however I'm not going to cancel. That one is worth it to me.

four times as much as an annual subscription

If you're gonna waste money, you might as well waste money on something big.

I'd like to use Jelly Fin, but it has not been a great experience for me on a Mac with an Apple TV. HDR doesn't carry over, some videos are blocked due to music licensing or something, and the library syncing doesn't always work. I'm not sure if it's a Jellyfin problem, a lack of support for Mac hardware, or just my personal incompetence with this sort of thing (very likely). I managed to get Plex to work without issue, so I'm using that even if I don't really like the UX all that much.

The great part is you own it at the end of it.

Even then, I've had hard drives last 10 years. But YMMV.

i dont even sub to streaming services and currently building my media server (5x 12tb drives in zfs z2) just for archival and setting up a service for some family inthe case they want to bail. aa prices fo up, people are just going to look for a diy way at some point.

You will make a difference because you're not the only one. Thx for doing the right thing. With enough pressure maybe they'll learn.

Sometimes the people that need the most help, don't even realize it. Keep fighting the good fight.

They're going to need that money to settle the lawsuit from Gina Carano funded by Elon Musk.

It worked for Netflix. It's easy to scoff at the clearly customer-antagonistic policies these services are turning towards, inevitably accompanied by the "well, they lost me as a subscriber" flood of comments. But the unfortunate truth is the vast majority of people just shut up and pay, resulting in big net income for the corporations that enact these policies.

I can get around password sharing rules on every streaming service that has them by using my phone and mobile data lmao.

Netflix recently stopped me from casting to my tv from my phone, which used to work fine