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Worked well for for Netflix, stock is up 30% since May.
If anyone can pull it off it’s Disney. Parents will keep shelling out whatever Disney demands to keep their kids entertained.
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Meanwhile, for completely unrelated reasons, I decided to mention that the https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/ instance is run by the former top mod of /r/piracy.
How do I add that one to this instance?
I’m not familiar with how Lemmy does it, I’m a kbin user myself, but I believe it should be similar between the two. You subscribe on a community-by-community basis, so for example you’d put “piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com” into the community search and then subscribe to it when it showed up in the results.
Edit: Indeed, when I visit https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/c/piracy there’s a helpful bit of text in the sidebar:
You are not logged in. However you can subscribe from another Fediverse account, for example Lemmy or Mastodon. To do this, paste the following into the search field of your instance: !piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com
Thank you
You can just simply search community you want with the instance their in specifically. example being: @memes@lemmy.world
@is a user; you want!.Random example: !piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com
Thanks actually. I always forget that honestly
Jesus, what’s with the bot in the comments, do I even want to click on that picture?
Report and block, that’s what I did. We don’t need that nonsense around here
I paid for Netflix, cancelled it and got Disney+ instead when they cracked down on password sharing. I am more than happy to end my subscription to Disney and go full pirate, I don’t care and I live in Canada so I’ll never face repercussions.
I’d love to support the creatives but seeing all these strikes it’s not like the execs are paying them livable wages anyways. They complain about not making enough money on streaming then vote to increase just the executives pay by insane margins annually, I can see through your deception execs.
If you are going to hoard your wealth so will I, and when the economy dies cause we are all hoarding our pennies I won’t feel bad for you while you look up from the bounds of the guillotine.
The insane greed is something I simply can’t comprehend. Isn’t there a point at which it’s enough? It seems almost like a mental illness. Indefinite growth and infinitely increasing profit margins aren’t possible. There’s a limit to value and possible revenue. I don’t know where all of this is going, but it can’t be anywhere good, and I’m sure it will be violent. I seem to be in the minority, but I absolutely believe there is a point where a person has enough wealth and doesn’t, perhaps even shouldn’t, have more.
“Infinite growth is the ideology of the cancer cell”
My thoughts exactly. It’s all devolved into savage economic darwinism. Giant corps won’t stop until they own literally everything, and even then, it likely won’t be enough. It truly is a cancer on society. It’s not like I want to abolish capitalism, I’m no tankie, but when does the greed stop? There’s a reasonable limit somewhere, but apparently in the minds of the corporate overlords:
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Yo ho ho and a bottle of rum 🏴☠️
Said differently,
After Netflix, Disney is giving users permission to pirate all of its content
“Surely all the people who share subscriptions because they can’t all afford 25 streaming services will each get their own accounts if we block password sharing, as opposed to just not using our services any more!”
That was what people said and then did the opposite.
“Netflix added 5.9 million new subscribers in the last three months – almost three times as many as analysts expected – after clamping down on households that were sharing their passwords.”
Source: https://www.theguardian.com/media/2023/jul/19/netflix-subscriber-growth-password-sharing
Aren’t those numbers for other territories where they have cheaper plans and no crackdown on sharing?
The number are for total users. And the password-sharing changes are now global as far as I know.
Where are the separate numbers just for North America? Do they release those? Or do they just mix it all together to obfuscate what happened after the last price raise?
Netflix Second Quarter 2023 Earnings
https://s22.q4cdn.com/959853165/files/doc_financials/2023/q2/FINAL-Q2-23-Shareholder-Letter.pdfSummary:
- In May, we successfully launched paid sharing in 100+ countries, representing more than 80% of
our revenue base.
- Revenue in each region is now higher than pre-launch, with sign-ups already exceeding cancellations.
- Paid net additions were 5.9M in Q2, and today we’re rolling out paid sharing to almost all of the remaining countries.
- In May, we successfully launched paid sharing in 100+ countries, representing more than 80% of
our revenue base.
It’s funny how everyone said they would give up on netflix once the whole password sharing was tossed out, but here we are with netflix hitting higher numbers and no one leaving. Every streaming service out there is gonna follow the same practice since it’ll make them more money. If you dont agree with how they are doing things, then leave. It’s the only way to influence their decisions.
I did. I’m disappointed, but not surprised that it worked. I have no problems dropping Disney, too. The open sea is vast.
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The first 2 months dont really count. People wanna finish that one show or continue until they find a good replacement.
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People on reddit/lemmy said they would leave. They dont really represent the vast majority.
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Netflix did get screwed - their numbers increase is at low profit regions, meaning their operating costs go up while revenue increases only marginally compared to higher priced regions.
My threat hasn’t changed. I split my time between three states and so far hasn’t given me shit any time I switch location. The moment they do, I cancel. I’m mostly watching Paramount+ and Pluto anyway.
Well, as long as your devices are not TVs and are online from your “household” location at least once every 30 days, it shouldn’t complain as far as I understand it
I have to move my household everytime I switch locations since I normally spend months at a time per place. As long as it lets me do this as much as I need to, we’re cool. The moment it tells me I’ve reached a limit to the number of times I can switch locations within a given time period, I’m moving on.
