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Disney+ and Hulu raise prices by up to 13 percent after doubling profits

163 points · 188 comments · Brajeshwar

  1. y-c-o-m-b · · focus · HN ↗
    I'm seeing "average" people adopt piracy at astonishing levels because of these decisions. I went over to a friend's house the other day and his relative sent him one of those Android TV devices with access to all the pirated content you could ever want. I would never have imagined him to be ok with it. This has been happening in my social circle at an accelerating rate. People that would have scolded me for doing the same 10 years ago are now doing it.
    1. sphars · · focus · HN ↗
      Friends don't let friends use those shady streaming boxes

      <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;krebsonsecurity.com&#x2F;2025&#x2F;11&#x2F;is-your-android-tv-streaming-box-part-of-a-botnet&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;krebsonsecurity.com&#x2F;2025&#x2F;11&#x2F;is-your-android-tv-strea...

      1. ssl-3 · · focus · HN ↗
        The pre-stuffed, pre-configured, plug-n-play, extra-spooky-box method described in the article is just one of many methods.

        Someone I know buys cheap &quot;IPTV&quot; service by the year. Access is paid for by buying potted plants or something else that looks random on some web store and is delivered in the form of a .m3u playlist that hides behind a username&#x2F;password pair.

        The usual way they use it is with slimey-feeling closed-source sideloaded apps on mass-market streaming devices from such unknown companies as Amazon and Google, or directly on a smart TV itself. Wherein: Despite the dingy back-alley ambience of the subscription and installation processes, the UI is snappy and responsive in use.

        And the slimey software is also avoidable. Since it&#x27;s all based around a playlist that is hiding behind basic http auth, it also works with open-source projects like Dispatcharr, which in turn can emulate an HDHomeRun network-connected OTA TV tuner. This combination can then present new possibilities, like live streaming TV for Plex users.

        (It&#x27;d all be very interesting to me if I had any motivation to sit down and absorb live television like a slug, but I didn&#x27;t do much of that even when I worked for a cable company and got the uber-premium package for free as a perk.)

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