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It's not just "ABC" either, it's Disney/Hulu.
I just canceled both services and everyone else should too.
Fuck em. All they care about is money, so let's show them that siding with fascism costs a shit ton of money
If nothing else it will get the CEO who did this fired.
Anyone who reads this... Cancel them all and spend a few 100 bucks setting up a Jellyfin server.
I'm an old head, everything I watch on Hulu/Disney I have on Plex.
I was just subscribing because I have disposable income and wanted my dollars to count as eyeballs on media I enjoy.
But fuck that.
A significant amount drop in subscribers not only has a real chance to change their mind, it makes every other corp reevaluate whether to fight trump or not.
When you cancel it asks for a reason, and “Other” gives freeform text - I let them know that bending the knee on fascism was my line.
Yeah same although I'm now concerned about that ending up on my Palantir profile. Isn't it great that that's actually a fairly legitimate concern nowadays?
There's some solace in dying in a prison camp next to men and women and children that also hate fascists.
Way ahead of you. I dont watch Disney anything but I'm about to fill my disks with Disney crap and seed away.
I’ll leave this idea here: https://www.drewlyton.com/story/the-future-is-not-self-hosted/
Is someone working on building something like that? I saw the project Storj and the coin, and it seemed like a cool idea for storage, I guess.
What'd be great is if someone started making something like Nextcloud combined with some clones of things AWS components + Kubernetes and make that peer-to-peer as far as running the compute and getting redundant storage, etc.
There was a really interesting project about 10 years ago - cannot remember the name of it now. I think it was a prepackaged OS bundled with lots of self-hosting type of solutions out of the box. Still, that was isolated self-hosting.
ETA: I remember the project now, it's FreedomBox: https://www.freedombox.org/
Before streaming really caught on, we didn't bother with cable TV. I used to spend a considerable amount of time each week downloading all my family's favorite shows, and burning them onto DVDs to watch at our leisure. No schedules, no commercials, rewind a scene at my convenience, etc. it was well worth the trouble.
When streaming started, I got caught up in platform creep, like everyone else. I started with Netflix, and the next thing I know, I've got a half dozen or more subscriptions. I slowed down on downloading, only grabbing the occasional movie, but now there are so many streaming platforms that subscribing to the necessary ones costs more than cable. So I'm going back to pirating again, starting with any ABC programming. I seldom watch Disney stuff, but something pops up now and then. I watch Hulu pretty often, but I don't mind downloading Only Murders in the Building instead.
Amother tip: My current cable plan includes built in TIVO, so I record a lot of shows to watch later. When I do, I can skip the commercials, which is what hurts them more than anything. People think media companies exist to serve entertaining programming, but that's not true at all, that's just the illusion they offer viewers. All they really are is advertising platforms. That's their real business, and their real mission - to get us to watch the advertising that their clients pay for. The entertainment programming is just bait, to get us to sit on our asses in front of the TV, hoping that when the ads come on, we'll be too lazy to get up and walk away, so they'll rape our minds with enticing ads for overpriced consumer goods from China. I'm actually surprised they haven't tried to prohibit TIVO.
So when you skip the commercials, you are effectively doing the same thing as pirating - removing the way they make money. NOTHING hurts them worse than consuming their expensive bait, without paying for it by either watching the ads, or paying their subscription.
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This is exactly my story. Once the billionaires started sucking DJTs dick, supporting genocide, doing crazy fascist shit and fucking all of us normies into oblivion in the process, I stopped caring. These companies do insane crime with no repercussions and even benefit from it? From my pov, I'm obliged to pirate.
Our economy is at a turning point. The "experiment" of Trickle Down Economics was proven to be a scam many years ago, and yet it still persists as our primary economic system.
If we don't make the switch to Trickle UP Economics, we will organically switch to Robin Hood Economics (Take from the rich, give to the poor), and that often comes accompanied by guillotines.
Ive been using a Synology with DS video for three 3 years, they killed DS video so I turned my gaming PC into a Jellyfin server, best decision ever, and Im using tailscale to host it to a few friends
Just started Alien Earth, got place to pirate?
FreeMedia? HeckYeah
Try to get an invite to a private tracker. Public ones suck
IPT invites are easy to get and it's good enough to get started and build a reputation, which you will need for invites to better trackers
You just talk over my head. Enlighten me?
Basically you need to go turn tricks and suck up to people for a invite to a club so you can suck up to more exclusive clientele so you can get invites to even more exclusive clubs.
Said tricks is seeding torrents like a good boy.
If you got a little disposable income try newsgroups, I've always been able to find what I need.
Whats jellyfin?
Or use Stremio
100% - except Jellyfin only works well if you use the desktop/web UI. If you use TV apps, firestick, shield - any app based system, Jellyfin is total garbo, and I'd recommend Plex instead. I wish Jellyfin apps worked better, I'd switch in a heartbeat, but it runs like garbage on my Nvidia Shield.
I so honestly wish I had time to do that.
Unfortunately, I just need tv to work and Disney+ is a way to throw money at the problem instead of time.
The crazy part is, I do have a 20TB Plex server, but there's a problem with the machine and I just don't have time to troubleshoot it. So despite already having much of that content, I'm paying to access it.
Then throw your money in a different direction.
I'm all for it! Show me another direction that works!
Disney Plus is the only service I know of that actually has an access pin lockout system to keep kids in their kids account. All I want is a way for a 9 year old to watch tv without running into adult content. That turns out to be hard when your particular kid will actively seek out anything you tell them to avoid.
But honestly, Disney has the largest amount of appropriate content for them anyway. I think I'm stuck with this for now.
I love it, I get down votes, but no suggestions. Brave and resourceful.
Wait, Walt Disney would never side with Nazis…would he!!!!?!
Unfortunately I don't have an account to cancel.
Seed more
Dicks out, torrents up