And yet the cost of BitTorrent and the *arr suite has stayed the same.
Like clockwork, Peacock is raising subscription prices again
Submitted 10 hours ago by return2ozma@lemmy.world to technology@lemmy.world
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jhoward@lemmy.sdf.org 5 hours ago
ComradeRachel@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 hours ago
Remember the good ol days where Netflix had everything you could watch for a cheap subscription price.
trk@aussie.zone 6 hours ago
I didn’t pirate for years when Netflix was the bomb. Then it all started going to poop but I kept the subscription running while I sailed the seven seas with the thought that it was just a little bit of a reduced library, it’s still good. It’s just a heap of shows cancelled after one season and even more content missing, it’s still good. But after a few years I had to accept that like a pig soaring over a dam, it was gone. So now no one gets my money.
Except my ISP, private indexers, a VPN company, and various hard drive manufacturers I guess.
TeddE@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
crystalmerchant@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
Can’t wait to keep not paying for Peacock
Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 23 minutes ago
Peacock = pisspenis
Bakkoda@sh.itjust.works 1 hour ago
I signed up for one of their trials because I’m a huge EPL fan and then found out most of the games weren’t even on peacock or the tier they told me def had the games. I needed a cable subscription and USA channel. Fuck em.
douglasg14b@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
Arrr, my friend
Vanilla_PuddinFudge@infosec.pub 4 hours ago
I do like how all of piracy is nautical themed.
Radarr, Sonarr, Torrent, hell, soon we might have a download client called “Mr. Squidward”.
oppy1984@lemdro.id 7 hours ago
Yep, I saw they had The Monday Night Wars and every episode was listed as free to stream. When I finished episode 4 a message came up that I could subscribe to continue watching. I checked online and it was all, from episode 5 on, behind the paywall after saying beforehand that it wasn’t. I deleted the app from my Roku and phone, then deleted my account. Fuck peacock.
pyre@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
but now you’ll be not paying even more money! capitalism is great
Pogogunner@sopuli.xyz 10 hours ago
Am I understanding correctly that the most expensive “premium plus” plan still has advertisements?
sic_semper_tyrannis@lemmy.today 9 hours ago
I saw that too. It’s crazy what people put up with
toiletobserver@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
Arrrr mateys, see ye on the high seas…
jeanofthedead@sh.itjust.works 8 hours ago
Thank glob for services like Stremio, Real-Debrid, Omni, Fusion, Vidi, Kodi, etc.
MunkysUnkEnz0@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
streamio plus Real debrid for the win
AngryRobot@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
Fuck those bait-and-switch dastardly. On Vlack Friday, they has their basic premium (🤮) for $50/year and had a monthly option to get the premium plus and remove ads. Then 6 months later, they got rid of that option. And removed the option for monthly at that plus level.
zewm@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
Thanks for the reminder to unsub 👌
I hate peacock in general because they purposely deny the ability to use the service on Linux. So I’m forced to use it on my Apple TV instead of my computer browser.
I only stayed with the cheapest plan in order to watch the WWE PLEs. I will figure out another way to watch. Fuck NBC and Peacock.
Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
Like clockwork I continue to not be subscribed to peacock, or any other streaming, for this very reason.
Pay X amount per month, for a selection of content you don’t control, have no ownership of, cannot retain a copy of (longterm), and whose price is subject to change at any time.
Ooooorrrrrrr…I could buy physical media, and rip my own permanent copy, which never expires, andwhose cost is a one time purchase.
Why the fuck is physical media dying??? Oh, right. I live in the same country that willingly voted for trump, and are now shocked to learn he’s a shitty person.
In other words, I’m surrounded by morons.
wise_pancake@lemmy.ca 8 hours ago
I don’t mind paying for a solid rotation of content to watch, I don’t have to own everything. People were mostly happy with blockbuster’s business model.
The streaming industry is a heaping pile of shit right now though, and everyone is trying to dial us back to the worst of cable again.
einlander@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
⛵
veroxii@aussie.zone 5 hours ago
🏴☠️
Fizz@lemmy.nz 8 hours ago
Ngl buying movies and TV shows is way worse than paying to stream them. If you buy them you’re left with a library of movies and shows youve already seen.
GregorGizeh@lemmy.zip 6 hours ago
The key words here being “left with a library”. Your media, now and forever, at no additional cost, available whenever you want. I could not go back to netflix etc.
partial_accumen@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
How do you know what to buy? There are all kinds of shows I watch (before knowing anything about them) that aren’t worth buying.
Alteon@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
Mate, there are so many free streaming sites out there. Just make sure to have a really good ad blocker turned on. That said, you may have to find a good few that work with your browser, and to find the shows you want.
We’ve cancelled every single subscription service that we had. We’ve been pirating content for over a year now, and get to watch every show, from every streaming service, in HD, the day after they are released. Never turning back. Next eventual step will be to sail the high seas. :)
Peffse@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
I get my media from the local library and buy the ones I enjoy.