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Disney is raking its customers over the coals with a 75% price hike for their annual subscription (originally $80.) People wonder why piracy is on the rise.Multiple commenters are saying I'm off base about the 75% price increase. My payment less than a year ago was $79.99. Here's the proof.

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[–] [email protected] 72 points 11 months ago (2 children)

About to see? My friend, we never stopped. Especially now, more people have started to look into self hosting.

I never stopped once I saw that the shit you pay for is not even yours anymore. Unless it's indie games, I just straight up download the game. Could care less about online gaming. (Thx ftp)

[–] [email protected] 15 points 11 months ago (6 children)

Can you point me in the right direction of where to start? My last adventures of file sharing ended with Napster and Limewire.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (3 children)

Well theoretically...

  1. get a vpn

  2. deluge (others will pile in with apps no doubt)

  3. go to https://privacysavvy.com/security/torrents/best-torrent-sites/

Once you get your feet back under yourself, you can start looking at usenet and such

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Oh wow Usenet is still a good spot? That brings back good memories of sailing the seas.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Right Usenet and IRC all memory lane. Lol.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I agree with this guy.

Look into usenet, sabnzbd (or nzbget) and the ***arr programs.

Cost you a max $10/month, depending on how serious you are at hoarding, and how far back you want to go.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

If I were to do such a thing I would find myself quite happily served by the above without the need for a usenet acct, but of course this is an entirely theoretical discussion from the comfort of armchairs so reality may differ for various parties puffs pipe

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

You may be looking for 'Free Media. Heck Yeah'.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

This is what I'm talking about. Welcome to the seven seas matey!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

I thought this community had a megathread pinned with info answering exactly that?

[–] [email protected] 13 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Naw, lots of us stopped when Netflix streaming came in full swing.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Anime was still not big when Netflix came in. Foreign movies were also not available yet either. Programs, music, and all that stuff was still hard to get if it was not distributed by a US company.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Yeah, but I didn't care about any of that.