Streaming prices climb in 2025 after already surpassing inflation rates | Five services started charging more in January
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Are people quiting tho?
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I've got 'family' in Bangladesh, so all good.
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Vin Diesel: "I got....family"
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Guys it's just the eggs that they have to use in the streaming production factory. Every streaming uses a half dozen eggs to manufacture. It's actually really expensive!
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Speaking to those in the U.S., Your local library has a huge collection of DVDs. Your local thrift shop and eBay have blu ray players (most of which will upscale DVDs during playback) for cheap.
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Oh, we raised the prices by $5? We meant to raise it by $10. Tell ya what, we'll fix the mistake and raise it by $15. Give us your money, you pleb!
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It seems very reckless to have studdingsails out in those conditions... Bad seamanship.
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Look at the cost you're paying for Prime and consider how many orders you'd have to place to break even (using the Prime membership money just to pay for shipping when you need it faster, etc).
I exceed the hell out of that in probably a couple weeks for my business. I hate it, but I'm pinched to keep costs down and time is valuable, and unfortunately Amazon fills that requirement too well. I live in a small town, I don't have time to dedicate an entire day to driving to civilization and back, plus fuel costs. Plus, Amazon gets it to my mail depot faster than I can get it from other suppliers, without having to pay shipping.
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What pisses me off is the way they pass movies and shows amongst each other and arbitrarily drop them from their platforms to pull this artificial scarcity nonsense. Oh you want to watch this movie? We don't have it anymore, better sign up for that other service. Or, sorry this movie from the 60s is unavailable on any service, but you can "rent" it for $10/24hrs. And then on top of it all, the quality from every streaming provider is dog shit. You know which service doesn't have all these issues? My damn home server, and the quality is fantastic.
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I’ve been less and less interested in TV at all. I find myself mostly rewatching the few really good shows from times past and largely ignoring the new stuff. It’s nice to have something to put on while I’m cooking, but if all the streaming services disappeared tomorrow, I wouldn’t lose any sleep over it.
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clearly it be supernatural and caught them unawares.
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I know I have, and several friends and family have. And the fact that there's been a lot of discussion online from people expressing their frustration and disappointment about price increases and dwindling value, makes me think that it's a broader trend.
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Hence, piracy is a service problem. Capitalism clearly can't be trusted to provide the services without extortion.
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Free.mp3 - Dubioza Kolektiv
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Is this a world thing? Article only mentions US…
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My lifetime Plex subscription was sub $100 years ago. That’s a one time payment mind you. None of my media disappears nor has ads.
Granted, I had to do the footwork, but it’s all self hosted and not going anywhere.
Yes I know there are other solutions, some of us are upset with Plex, but this is still working just fine. One day I’ll start testing Jellyfin.
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Definitely don’t get a drive to rip them for later either, like I didn’t do with CDs back in the day.
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No. Netflix's earnings actually shows high user growth recently.
I've cancelled, and so have some others on Lemmy, but we're an absolutely tiny amount of people.
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It’s almost like the inflation of the past four years was just corporate greed the whole time.
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There's a bill being introduced in the US by a California Democrat that would allow courts to order ISPs and DNS providers to block pirating sites. Of course the MPAA authored it.
