Yah literally everyone with more than two brain cells saw this coming…start out cheap to suck you in to kill competition and then raise prices every quarter…

The seven seas streaming service, however, is keeping its prices frozen for another year making it now the longest streak ever of a service without raising prices.

They took away my headphone jack and now they’re taking away my PlayStation disc reader so they can force me to stream movies and video games.

Excuse me while I grab my fainting salts, I am so SHOCKED to find exactly what I expected has occurred!

I wouldn't know.

And what additional value are consumers getting in return for these ludicrous price rises?

Nothing but shit and slop.

Still, cable was like $75 - $100 a month for me, iirc. Streaming services I pay for one at a time until I run out of things to watch, then switch services for a while.

I just pay for internet. Everything else is free.

Oopsies, I dropped something...

https://wiki.servarr.com/

If buying streaming services ain't owning, piracy ain't stealing.

Streaming is just cable but you can choose what to watch rn, heck you even get ads on lower tier subscriptions

Shocking /s

It's still so much better than it was. At least with most services I can pay to opt out of ads, that didn't exist for cable.

Dumb headline:

• premium ad free didnae exist in cable
• Greedy bastards in Hollywood got greedier: The method of delivery is not the reason, just the excuse.
• The fact that some of us let all these media companies create their own service and demand the streaming infra pricetags is part of the problem. If Americans refused to jump ship for Friends and Marvel and whatever else, we might actually just have Hulu and Netflix and the infra costs would be be lower. Instead people flocked to greedy Dickney et al and got screwed in the process. This is not an attempt to claim Netflix or Hulu wouldnae have triez to raise rates, just to point 　out that their argument to do so would have been harder.

They can get away with that simply because there are enough lazy people who don't care about the price hikes. I swear we have reached a form of late-stage capitalism where corpos have indoctrinated people in such a way, that they don't even consider the thought of simply not consuming something.

Predicted this over a decade ago. I hate that I was right.

Yar har fiddle dee dee

Went from having all the streaming platforms to canceling everything and going back to the high seas. No regrets. Final straw was when NONE of them had a popular movie from 2013 for free. Fuck all of these companies. They want you to own nothing and pay monthly for the privilege.

Well it’s a lot easier to just get a streaming subscription for a month, watch what you want and then cancel, compared to how it was in the days of cable, that being said because there is so much fragmentation of content between different platforms you might have to juggle through multiple websites just watch what you want

And piracy has never been easier. You can get a VPN to hide it from your ISP and use the computer in your house.

Still nothing to watch

Really? I wouldn't know because I'm on the high seas.

Meanwhile the cost of piracy remains a cool zero dollars and zero cents.

Isn't real inflation higher now?

I only keep them because my satellite TV provider (Italy) bundles 1Gbps internet + Netflix + paramount plus + their own channels and programmes for 40 euro a month.

Otherwise I'd be long gone.

I only watch yt nowadays

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Buy ya gotta admit their point that streaming still costs way less than cable ….. assuming you’re subscribing to what you want rather than try to recreate

When I first switched, the math said I cut my costs in third while getting much better internet service and three streaming services

• Gigabit internet + 3 * streaming service == 1/3 (200M internet + cable)

The math is still positive but much less so, however streaming services attempts to alienate me are succeeding - I only subscribe to one streaming service and am considering giving it up. Enshittify away and see what that gets you

I pay for Netflix family plan but since Netflix has decided my kids are no longer in my family when they are at their moms or at college…… I no longer need that. Clear cause and effect

Usenet + Jellyfin on docker ftw

I've seen their libraries... they wanna serve me garbage and want me to pay for it? Pure insanity. Idk how so many people watch this goyslop without feeling disgusted with themselves, without thinking that their intelligence is being insulted 1. because they're watching garbage, 2. because the executives thought we were dumb enough to enjoy it and they were sadly right, and I don't know how they willingly give their money to these companies when a 5 minute search can give you access to everything, but whatever.

This, and ads, are things I haven't been burdened with since my teenage years, and I don't understand how people don't feel some sort of moral disgust/personally insulted by participating in it. Maybe I'm too sensitive. 🤷‍♂️

Jellyfin users feeling smug till they look at the price of storage

Wish I’d gotten more while it was still reasonable compared to SSDs.. thought surely it wouldn’t hit spinning rust nearly this bad

I would pay for streaming if there was an aggregator for all the stuff, at once - like I can listen to music from thousands of lables. Otherwise, YARRR!

250$ for 6tb , enough space for 2000 movies .. better than streaming. :)