Streaming competitor Disney+ is looking to boost revenue with live sports tier

  • @aelwero@lemmy.world
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    632 years ago

    “Netflix plans to go bankrupt by increasing the price on its bunch of garbage that everyone’s tired of”

    FTFY…

  • NYPariah
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    Like Reddit, I ditched Netflix as well. Loyalties’ strength isn’t what it used to be. Got a VPN, now I watch whatever I want. Thanks greedy companies, for helping me wise up.

    • Neato
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      How does a VPN help you steam sans Netflix? You’re using other streaming services and get access to more content from other countries?

        • danhakimiOP
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          are they? my ISP doesn’t block sites like that… Is this a DNS thing?

          • @mateomaui@reddthat.com
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            Could be a US thing. There are certain sites for ripping youtube videos (etc) that aren’t accessible from here due to piracy laws and you have to VPN into Asia etc to have access.

              • @mateomaui@reddthat.com
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                One example (for me anyway) is inserting “pp” into any youtube video address before the .com so it’s “youtubepp.com/etc”, and opens the youtube link in another service to download it by a few different options. I get a no-access notice if I go there connected to a US vpn server, or with no vpn, but if I switch to a non-US server, it works without a problem.

                • danhakimiOP
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                  sorry, specifically youtube videos, I’ve had that issue, but it has nothing to do with ISPs, and I have not had any site blocked because I’m in the US.

      • Franzia
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        The user is advocating for piracy. Just so everybody’s clear on how they replaced their Netflix subscription with a VPN.

        • danhakimiOP
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          Piracy? I didn’t see any talk of ships or swords or parrots or peg-legs. I think he’s just talking about downloading and probably copyright infringement, but nothing a pirate would do.

  • Nora
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    This is a tactic to make people dislike unions…

  • @signor@lemmy.world
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    We always knew they wouldn’t give up their profits, so they’re just passing off the expense to us.

  • @NotSpez@lemm.ee
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    This isn’t great. With all the cracking down on password sharing, less (quality) content due to every studio wanting their own streaming service the user experience is getting increasingly shitty. I think it’s a matter of time before a lot of people get their old pirate hats out of storage.

    • @MajorHavoc@lemmy.world
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      In this thread: I hear the theme song to “Pirates of the Caribbean”. Weird.

      Surely this will be looked back on as a wise and trust building move, by the future CEO and VP of Netflix, alone in their shared studio apartment, that they run the remainder of Netflix out of. Their one remaining employee will know better, but be too polite to say so.

    • No, price gouging has a specific meaning relating to spikes in demand often in conjunction with a disaster, like doubling gas prices during a hurricane.

      But raising prices for a non-essential good will probably never be gouging.

      • danhakimiOP
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        also, peak pricing is generally legal, price gouging isn’t illegal everywhere, and the definition is sometimes vague due to, you know, how vague the concept is—the definition usually includes some version of “excessive” or “extreme” pricing.

        So like, if you have trouble getting food into your grocery store after a disaster, and you have to charge a little more, you’re probably safe—the idea behind price gouging ins more what happens when all the grocery store owners quadrupled their prices as they twist their moustaches and laugh, saying, “what are you going to do, not eat?”

    • @bstix@feddit.dk
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      It’s not really price gouging. There’s no particular supply/demand crisis to take advantage of. There’s plenty of supply of streaming. Even free stuff enough for a lifetime, so it’s completely voluntary to throw this or that amount at some greedy company testing the price limits.

      • Flying Squid
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        The supply has been cut by the strikes. Viewers want new content, not old content.

        • danhakimiOP
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          I honestly haven’t seen anybody complain that there’s nothing to watch, have you? Would you really say that people are in shock over the total lack of television available?

          I mean, in the past week or so, I’ve seen new episodes of Only Murders in the Building, Futurama, Bob’s Burgers, The Simpsons, Sex Education, Adventure Time, Archer, Tacoma FD, Star Trek Lower Decks, and Tacoma FD. That’s just the shows I’m tracking, I’m sure I missed something good. On Thursday, we’re getting new seasons of Loki and Our Flag Means Death. and HBO cancelled Winning Time mid-season because they really weren’t that desperate for a few extra episodes.

          Are subscriptions down? My friends don’t seem too upset about the “shocking lack of content” that seems to exist in your head.

          • Flying Squid
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            I honestly haven’t seen anybody complain that there’s nothing to watch, have you?

            Now? No. Because they still have things they can release. When those run out, and they will relatively soon, they will be in trouble.

            • danhakimiOP
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              They’ve been pacing themselves. They planned for the strike well before it started. It’s not going to dry up suddenly the day the actors get back to work.

    • danhakimiOP
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      yeah “price gouging” is not the same thing as “increasing prices a lot” or “increasing prices at a time that makes people think, ooh wee, that’s not a very nice thing to do.”

      • Flying Squid
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        Price gouging is the practice of increasing the prices of goods, services, or commodities to a level much higher than is considered reasonable or fair. Usually, this event occurs after a demand or supply shock.

        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Price_gouging

        Price increased. Supply shock due to strikes. Sounds like price gouging to me.

        • @Earthwormjim91@lemmy.world
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          You can’t really price gouge goods with elastic demand though, where demand rises and falls with the price. Luxury goods like streaming services even doubly so because they are in no way, shape, or form necessary things. If people pay the price for a luxury good that they don’t need, then by definition it’s a fair price.

          Netflix isnt a necessity. Don’t like the price, don’t buy the service. It really is that simple.

          Also, price gouging is only illegal in the US for necessities in declared civil emergencies.

        • danhakimiOP
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          “Supply Shock” is not “oh no, now we have to pay writers a little more” or “we’ll have a couple fewer new shows in the next year,” it’s usually “the city’s water supply has been tainted and trucks aren’t able to get bottled water in as fast as before, now we can charge eight times as much for bottled water!” or “well, there was a hurricane that took out half the tomatoes in Italy, and for the next few weeks, the people who do have tomatoes have NYC Pizza shops by the balls.”

          And the price increase usually isn’t a few dollars, but like, the prices doubling or tripling or more.

        • @Mudface@lemmy.world
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          I’m just telling you how it works, man.

          Gotta show quarter over quarter growth. You don’t have to like it, but don’t take it out on me

          • Flying Squid
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            They will still have that growth. Just a fraction of a percent less. And they are using that to justify raising their prices.

            • danhakimiOP
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              Revenue growth down from 3% to 2% is significant, especially considering that’s an even bigger hit to growth in profits. They want to make their investors happy, they have a perfectly reasonable PR cover to raise their prices by a few dollars a month, so they’ll do it. What part of this is confusing?

              • Flying Squid
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                Again, less than 1%. Read the article.

                Here, I’ll even paste the relevant part:

                The guild then compared these costs to companies’ annual revenues and calculated the percentage that these costs would represent compared to those profits. The costs would account for 0.091 percent of Disney’s revenue, 0.214 of Netflix’s, 0.108 percent of Warner Bros. Discovery’s, 0.148 percent of Paramount Global’s, 0.028 percent of NBC Universal’s and 0.006 percent of Amazon’s, the WGA claims.

                Are you really going to claim that 0.214% less revenue justifies a price hike?

                • danhakimiOP
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                  one of their large investors saying “hey, hike prices” justifies a price hike. A profit reduction equal to .214% of revenue (and other concessions that could hurt the company in other ways) is far more than the amount of justification they need.

  • @anewbeginning@lemmy.world
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    Good luck with that. I have a list of shows I follow, and there used to be some 15 titles from Netflix, now I’m down to 6.

    Sex education and cobra Kai finish this year. That’s 4.

    Stranger things in 20532025. That’s 3.

    I’m left with two Korean shows, woo lawyer and squid game, whenever they come, and Wednesday, which I’m a lot less passionate for than many.

    If they spent less money on productions and put more of that money into writing maybe they’d produce less shit and they wouldn’t need to hike prices. Frankly, they are quickly becoming the least attractive streaming service. I’d say amazon prime video, but I get that as a bonus with prime.