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.

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/

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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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?

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.

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