Shit like this is why I don’t feel bad at all for pirating.
They raise their rates by 65% so they can continue to pay Hollywood actors to make crappy forgettable movies for the service
Don’t forget the 5 BILLION dollars they just gave to WWE, a company that regularly goes to Saudi Arabia. A country so backwards in human rights that they don’t allow women to work. So WWE’s answer to this was to create a tornament just for the women. Called “The Great Moolah Classic”. Only problem with that is, it happened just as the MeToo movement was happening. Now in case you’re unaware, womens pro wrestling from the 1950s through the 1980s was dominated by “The Great Moolah”.
Btw, I’M not saying she was great. Far from it. Thats just her stage name.
But if you were a woman, and you wanted to get into womens wrestling between 1950-1985 you NEEDED to go through The Great Moolah. Here’s the problem though.
You had to live in a camp, where she controlled every aspect of your life from training through retirement. What she did with this control was appalling. She forced them to prostitute themselfs out to not only the male wrestlers, but also the rest of the general public in the area.
These women then had to give 100% of the money to Moolah, or else they’d be beaten.
And that’s the tornament they tried to give as the consolation prize for women not being allowed to wrestle in Saudi Arabia. Oh, and when they were forced to change the name, almost IMMEDIATELY, they changed it to The Mae Young Classic. Mae Young was Moolah’s best friend, and one of the people who would help beat the other women. That’s still what it’s called today. When they first introduced the trophy for it, the trophy was intentionally made to look like a vagina. "Here’s your make believe trophy for winning a make believe tornament, as a consolation prize for very real restrictions on making very real money, and we shaped it like your genitals. Snickers, who sponsered the tornament balked when they saw their logo would be on that trophy, and they were forced to redesign it to something more generic. The tornament continues to this day.
And that’s what Netflix just paid 5 BILLION dollars for. Either 3 or 5 years. I forget which.
Holy shit, do you have some more info or refs for this, this sounds unbelievably fucked up.
From the book The Chronicles of Mad Maxine and from Dark Side of the Ring S01E06.
Disclaimer: I only know what I just looked up. Not a big wrestling watcher personally.
From what I can tell there’s two separate titles. The Mae Young Classic had two tournaments in 2017 & 2018. The Great Moolah was announced in 2018, subsequently changing the name to WrestleMania Women’s Battle Royal. It also has only had two tournaments, in 2018 & 2019.
As for the logo/trophy, WrestleMania Women’s Battle Royal looks like this, and the Mae Young Classic looks like this. I couldn’t find any info on previous versions, but if there was one that looked more like a vagina, it might as well be an anatomical model.
Care to share what site you use to pirate? I haven’t been in that loop for a while, but all these pricing increases for all these streaming services is driving me back.
Check out FMHY (Free Media Heck Yeah) they have a subreddit (I think) and a website. There’s absolutely everything there for pirating.
deleted by creator
links to pirate pretty much anything
123moviestv.net , bflixhd.to, yts.mx look for them through yandex search engine and not the google , google blocks them
for anime zorotv.to/home ,https://9anime.com.pl/
Kodi and RealDebrid
I love seeing the private trackers I use not mentioned here. If other sites have the spotlight, that’s a win.
May I ask why you pirate crappy forgettable movies?
Netflix has no way to continue growing aside from increasing prices. That is a bad sign. They will just keep squeezing people. Your best bet is to stop subscribing.
Damn near every tech company and major utility provider has no way of growing aside from squeezing.
No matter where you turn you will be getting squeezed, and it’ll just get worse every year that regulations don’t catch up.
And if the U.S. has it’s way, institutional regulation will be a thing of the past as a new wave of unchecked corporate oligarchy begins. And since the U.S’s biggest export is crazy, it’ll just spread…
Making the future more grim.
I couldn’t have said it better myself.
Anyone care to actually do anything about it? Seems like people are more concerned about abortion and things like that than everyone’s collective livelihood.
Yea tbh it’s business model is gonna be obsolete.
The bottom line is especially in a trash economy where the rich are bleeding everyone, no one is gonna wanna pay for digital luxuries.
I only shell out for hardware and food.
Streaming is going to end up exactly like cable, it feels inevitable. Adverts, package bundle deals, contracts will be the final thing where they lock you in for a “discount”.
Genius MBA thinking of our time
Yup, I’m playing with Jellyfin for our devices. I already have a fair amount of content in a digital format, so I’m mostly testing to see if offline playback works well.
So far so good, just need my wife and kids to approve and I can kill Netflix.
deleted by creator
What bugs me is the people paying for an ad tier… please just pirate!
Not everyone knows how tho.
Do the shareholders care?
Cause they just want to squeeze Netflix while they still can before they jump ship. And at that time, Netflix dying and another streaming services surfacing would be ideal for savvy investors.
Netflix removing subscribers. What is their plan, zero subscribers?
Is it opposite day?
They’ve tested the waters, and people will most probably wind up staying, as their password crackdown demonstrated.
Do you have any data that shows Netflix didn’t lose subscribers in markets where they cracked down on password sharing? I keep seeing people saying this is the case, but all the news stories I’ve read say that Netflix is only adding subscribers in the cheaper markets (like India and South America).
Slightly off topic, but starting 2025 they’re going to stop providing quarterly subscriber numbers to focus on “other metrics” related to revenue and growth.
That could be true, I was going on the fact of what they reported and how their stock jumped up because of what they said as well.
They’ll never mention how many people left though (unless that info is out there too?)
Subscribers are subscribers are subscribers, the total is up so even if they lost some in the US/European market, the rest of the world makes up for it.
Emerging markets pay around $6 a month for Netflix. Basically the “password crackdown” markets are subsidizing the new subscriptions where Netflix is trying to gain a foothold. It’s the typical “get ‘em hooked, then start raising prices.”
Sure but if subscriptions were stagnating before and they’re increasing more than ever, it ends up compensating for the loss of people who used to pay more.
Not only staying, they’ll stay and pay more
Gotta bump up that “$/sub” metric!
Investors like a get rich or die trying mentality cause they don’t die, they leave.
I joined the Plex server plan, it’s better and works everywhere and I don’t get price increases or ads
All the shows that I like I’ve been buying DVD or Blu-rays for, and then I rip them and put them on my Plex server. Just so I can watch some anytime, and not potentially damage the discs.
I don’t have to worry about geofencing, Don’t have to worry about a price change ever, Don’t have to deal with commercials, Don’t have to think if the shows that I like are going to disappear and maybe show up on a different provider, and generally higher quality audio and video.
Would it just be easier to use something like iTunes for movies/shows?
I’d say no. Because it’s online and attached to your account it can be lost. If for some reason you lose access to your Apple account you lose everything you’ve bought. And a lot of these online services don’t want you to share or transfer your account. So like if you pass away, most of these online services don’t allow you to transfer the account to a living relative (per of the TOS) (granted I doubt there’s much I could do to actually stop you if you just leave them out of it and just give the account to somebody).
Kids and spouse can still access everything since they are on my Apple family thing. I hear what you’re saying though.
Jellyfin + Wireguard VPN server says hello
Also, on the “standard with ads” tier, they’ve removed the ability to chromecast.
We now have a collection of maybe 400 DVDs (not pirated, legally purchased). Sure, everything we watch is reruns, but there are no commercials.
Good thing I already like digitizing my media for Plex
Cable is dead! Long live Cable!
/s
Cable companies did the cable model because it was profitable. Netflix and others are slowly realizing that and moving towards it.
Yup. It was the same enshittification process. “Subscribe to cable. We don’t have commercials!” Then a few years later, “Guess what?!? You’re getting commercials!”
40 months of PIA is $80. So for $2 a month, you can have it all with no ads and no region locking.
Remember to use streamio so you don’t have to download shit. 😉
I’d take a PIA for $2 per month
Pia?
It’s a vpn. There are many, that’s just one example.
deleted by creator
Removed by mod
Removed by mod
