Disney Raises Prices for Streaming Services by as Much as 27%::Walt Disney Co.
is raising the prices of its streaming services, including a 27% increase for
the advertising-free version of the flagship Disney+.
TLDR:
Current ad free plans for Disney+ and Hulu are now raising $3 more on October 12. Both becoming $13.99 and $17.99.
Some of us old timers remember the bad old days when a CD with two songs you actually liked cost $17.99 (about $35-40 in today’s dollars). As bad as Spotify and others are it sure beats what we had before.
Some of us don’t want to steal. I get that you’re mostly stealing from large corporations, but don’t be surprised if less and less original music gets made if you refuse to so much as pay a small subscription fee for infinite music. Many bands have said that they have stopped making new albums because there just isn’t enough money in the business to sustain all of the time and effort it requires anymore. The problem isn’t solved by downloading all of your music illegally, it is just shifted to a different problem
I go to live shows and buy merch literally every week. I generally support artists directly whenever possible. I don’t need to give these giant corpos money while pretending more than pennies go to the artists.
Some of us old timers remember the bad old days when a CD with two songs you actually liked cost $17.99 (about $35-40 in today’s dollars). As bad as Spotify and others are it sure beats what we had before.
Yes, let’s just pretend digital downloads haven’t existed for longer than streaming services and solve this problem completely.
Some of us don’t want to steal. I get that you’re mostly stealing from large corporations, but don’t be surprised if less and less original music gets made if you refuse to so much as pay a small subscription fee for infinite music. Many bands have said that they have stopped making new albums because there just isn’t enough money in the business to sustain all of the time and effort it requires anymore. The problem isn’t solved by downloading all of your music illegally, it is just shifted to a different problem
I go to live shows and buy merch literally every week. I generally support artists directly whenever possible. I don’t need to give these giant corpos money while pretending more than pennies go to the artists.