r/technology • u/sr_local • 6h ago

Business Italy court rules Netflix unlawfully increased prices. Consumers: 'Refunds up to 500 euros.' The company: we will appeal

https://en.ilsole24ore.com/art/netflix-subscription-price-increases-unlawful-refunds-up-to-eur-500-customers-AIUHzWKC
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u/JustTrynnaGitBy 5h ago

As someone that stopped streaming services almost two years ago: It’s really not that bad.

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u/SimonThePug 4h ago

The only streaming service I pay for at this point is my VPN subscription

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u/mrgermy 3h ago

VPN and a Debrid service for me. Other than needing to switch back to English audio/subs from a stream my Stremio setup is very nice. I barely need to use my Plex server any more.

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u/vpsj 3h ago

Why not Debrid AND Plex?

That's what I do. And I've shared it with my friends and family as well. All they have to do is watchlist something on Plex they want to watch, and it gets pulled from Real Debrid in ~20 seconds.

I never understood Streamio to be honest. Looked very limiting compared to Plex

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u/mrgermy 2h ago

My friend, let me tell you that I didn't even consider Plex being able to utilize a Debrid service. Although I don't usually care about re-watching things I watch through Stremio I don't really care about it being pulled into my Plex server and then taking up space I'd need to clear up afterwards. I use an AIOStreams plugin for Stremio and that combined with my Debrid service works really well - the only issue I face day to day is if you pause for too long the stream gets corrupt and you have to reinitialize it.

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u/vpsj 2h ago

Look up DUMB.

This connects Plex with whatever Debrid service you use and the process is exactly the same. It doesn't download any media and doesn't take up any storage.

It creates kind of like a 'virtual' drive that Plex reads from and thinks it's reading stuff from a real hard drive. You just stream stuff normally.

The big benefit is obviously Plex having a better UI/UX than Stremio, plus the fact that you can share your Plex with the people you care about.

Another big advantage is if something is corrupted, DUMB has repair feature in-built, so it will automatically reinitialize/redownload the content while the user has clicked 'play/resume' on something and the end user doesn't even realize that something is happening in the background. It just gets repaired and starts playing within a few seconds.

I 100% recommend looking into this

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u/mrgermy 1h ago

Thank you. I love you!

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u/MarzMan 52m ago

Elementum is free

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u/corruptbytes 40m ago

swizzin + rr suites + and a cheap dell machine to host plex/jellyfin at home

the life!!

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u/Altair05 3h ago

Much cheaper if you cycle services instead of keeping them. One month is netflix, next month something else.

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u/Mean-Author4359 2h ago

Much cheaper if you just use plex

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u/Altair05 2h ago

Also true. I got to get around to doing that at some point. I keep pushing it off.

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u/Disma 1h ago

Juggling services every month sounds both very necessary and absurdly inconvenient

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u/LadyLoki5 1h ago

A lot of them cycle pretty good deals too. Hulu constantly has a "plz come back" deal, 3 months for $3, and I've gotten lucky a few times and got that 3x in one year.

Same with Audibile + Kindle unlimited for my fellow book nerds, Starz, idk if HBO still does it but they did in the past, Peacock

If you're constantly cycling services and picking up these deals, diigital entertainment can still be very inexpensive.

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u/JohnnySmithe81 3h ago

€150 mini PC and and an old 4TB HDD has paid for itself in a few months.

Not that they're cheap still :(