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https://wiki.servarr.com/

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

I wouldn't know.

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

Nothing but shit and slop.

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.

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…

I just pay for internet. Everything else is free.

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

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.

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 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.

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

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.

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