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 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.
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What?
THEY’RE TAUNTING AN APPLE BUYOUT
Who’s buying Apple out?
THE GROCER
Other way around. Apple could buy Disney, not the other way around.
Apple’s market cap is around $2.8T, while Disney’s is around $160B.
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No, the other other way round
Which way around?
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 🏴☠️
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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
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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.
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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.
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Wow… I really wasn’t aware of Joe Rogan and his podcast…
How is Youtube Music?
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Good to know, thanks!
You’re paying for 4K, the number of screens is irrelevant.
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That’s not how the world works. Just because one service works one way doesn’t mean all services have to.
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Sure, and that’s fine - but you can’t say that because Disney+ does 4K on all plans it means that Netflix, who came out a long time before internet speeds could even reliably handle 4k streaming, need to. Netflix’s 4K plan is paying for the 4K, not for the multiple screens.
Because the subscription is for the household.
Nah fuck that. I paid for 4 screens so 4 people could use it. They took away my ability to give it to 4 people so Instead of reducing my service back to 1 screen I just didn’t need Netflix anymore.
My elderly in-laws will never sign up for it, so Netflix lost it all and gained nothing.
Netflix subscriptions went through the roof after the change, so Netflix gained far more than they lost.
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Pricing is an aggregate use case for scale. Generally you don’t want to have an overwhelming number of combos in your rate a price cards. It creates hard to market pricing and confusion for customers. And it causes a lot of challenges and confusion when pricing needs to change. So you offer a finite number of tiers that on aggregate cover the true cost and margin of profit needed. I think what most folks dont realize is a lot of streaming services currently operate a loss because they have to be so competitively priced. And cord cutting on cable where TV companies could rely on bundles puts streaming services in a direct to consumer model in a vice grip of pressure.
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If they operate at a loss that’s their problem not mine!
And if they then lose customers by increasing the price, or limiting the service that’s part of the game.
I have no sympathy for the media companies, they have always been grabbing money and overpricing everything.
That’s fine. Cancel your subscription. But Disney+ operates at a loss. A way to cut that loss is get more subscribers and or increase cost. I imagine they are going to be calling the bluff to see which of the PW sharers actually cancel vs those that stay and end up with converting recipients of sharers as new customers. But it’s naive to say that these companies, which I agree don’t deserve a lot of sympathy, are struggling to figure out how to operate a profitable streaming business. But folks want to have there cake and eat it too, don’t pay for the service but have unfettered access to the content.
A price increase and reduced marketing expenses helped improve the performance of Disney’s streaming unit from January through March. The division ended the quarter with an operating loss of $659 million, compared with $1.1 billion in the prior quarter.
Well let me break out a tiny violin for them then, it’s not like they have a monopoly on a huge number of IPs…oh wait…hmmm guess they do actually huh maybe they shouldn’t of spent all that money acquiring all those studios if it isn’t actually making them money. But you know I think the world’s largest media company can afford to run their streaming service at a loss.
I suspect they operate at a loss to increase their market share, and that Disney as a whole still is quite profitable.
And then we are back to the streaming providers saying “this sharing business must stop”, while they constantly move shows around to ensure you need all services and end up paying more than a cable subscription for streaming.
Yep media companies as we know them best.
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.
Streaming only makes sense financially when a household can share one account, if they start forcing people to have an account per device or per person they will end up losing customers.
A household can share one account. How many households honestly run into the concurrent device limit?
It’s very easy when the limit is 1.
Yeh we all know password sharing isn’t right. Did I do it with my Netflix? Sure. Was I angry when they cracked down on it? Nope, because I knew it was not how the service is made to be used.
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.
