It was over the day the studios wanted to have their own services instead of licensing content to Netflix and competitors.
this post was submitted on 13 Aug 2023
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The era of Free Streaming has just begun
Time to dust off the old pirate hat...
Cancelled Netflix last month. Still have Amazon Prime, but mostly for the delivery. The only video streaming subscription worth keeping is MUBI for now (and Nebula, but that hardly counts).
Paid Plex shares are the way to go
Plex shares (I actually use an Emby share) are what streaming should have been after cable.
It's the perfect service, everything all in one spot for a reasonable fee.
I'd pay up to $100 a month for that legally, but instead the studios want to bleed me dry.
So they get nothing.
Time to get the old torrent box going agaian
They pushed the boundaries people paid up so here we go keep paying
With streaming services you have to pay and you don't own it, with torrents you only have to pay for internet fee and you'll own it forever.
That's because it's not a sudtainable buisness model, I bet for the few actually good productions even donations would be better!
Hotstar disney+ is still $20 a year here in se Asia. Netflix starts at $5/month ($3 for mobile only). Im super curious if these prices ever hit us. I have a feeling they'd just kill the services if they did.
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I am currently getting my pirating machine back online. To many shows that are not availible on my usual streaming services.
Not sure what the angle of the article is (commenting before reading), but before we even get to the cost of individual services, I became disillusioned with streaming after Final Space was obliterated from existence for a tax write-off, and then hearing about what Disney pulled with Willow, and most recently the un-ordering of a whole second season of Star Trek Prodigy.
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yaaaaarrr tis cheaper than eva matey