Disney is raking its customers over the coals with a 75% price hike for their annual subscription (originally $80.) People wonder why piracy is on the rise.Multiple commenters are saying I'm off base about the 75% price increase. My payment less than a year ago was $79.99. Here's the proof.

  • Aceticon@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1331·
    8 months ago

    Considering they’re the one who pushed for decades to extend the Copyright period from the original 20 years to “Death of Author + 75 years” (so, around 125+ years), making the entering in our lifetime into the Public Domain of any of the cultural elements we grew up in pretty much de facto impossible, thus breaking the quid-pro-quo of Copyright Legislation, I’m surprised that anybody here sees the Disney Corporation as anything but Evil.

    These people did more damage to freedom in modern society (as Copyright also affects things like Software) than anybody else.

    • Copyright Sceptic@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      8·
      8 months ago

      I’m doing my part in opting out of copyright because fuck capitalism

      I’d be publishing written works in the public domain but I like to be attributed, so copyleft will do for now, it’s catchy

    • credit crazy@lemmy.worldEnglish
      72·
      8 months ago

      Honestly till death of auther I can at least understand as many creators like to make characters a part of their identity and after death they are dead how are they going to profit from the ip and what about the fans who I’m most cases can no longer enjoy new content and after saying all of that I probably only think that because of the ip culture created by the legal environment created by Disney

      • SuperSpruce@lemmy.mlEnglish
        16·
        8 months ago

        I think it should be a flat number of years like 20 years, giving the author plenty of time to exclusively control his IP and then afterwards they can still profit because they can still make things from the same IP and sell them to people knowing that they were the founder of the IP.

        I feel like the death of the author clause gives a perverse incentive to murder the author so that their IP becomes public domain sooner.

        • credit crazy@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          8 months ago

          Honestly considering where we are 40 years would probably be a good transition on the way to 20 considering how much corporations today like their 80s ips so making everything made before the 80s public domain could allow a actual proposal like this to not get shot down by corporations like Disney you do bring up a good point with the perverse incentive

    • superguyEnglish
      53·
      8 months ago

      Copyright and patent laws need to die.