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Plex is locking remote streaming behind a subscription in April (www.plex.tv)

submitted 2 days ago by Flatworm7591@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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Ahoy mateys, it's time to setup Jellyfin if you prefer not to pay for the privilege of self-hosting your own content.

cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/27204525

We are also changing how remote playback works for streaming personal media (that is, playback when not on the same local network as the server). The reality is that we need more resources to continue putting forth the best personal media experience, and as a result, we will no longer offer remote playback as a free feature. This—alongside the new Plex Pass pricing—will help provide those resources. This change will apply to the future release of our new Plex experience for mobile and other platforms.

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[-] Scary_le_Poo@beehaw.org 19 points 2 days ago

This headline is misleading. If the owner of the server has Plex pass than the users can use remote streaming as normal. If the owner does not have Plex pass, then the users need Plex pass to use that server remotely

Imo a stupid move by Plex, but as a lifetime Plex pass holder, no one that uses mine will have to worry so I'm relatively unbothered.

[-] MaggiWuerze@feddit.org 3 points 2 days ago

Dito. Every discussion I've seen, people were acting like Plex is already dead. This will basically change nothing for most people

[-] Kurroth@aussie.zone 5 points 2 days ago

And free local network management is still a fair deal... Pay for extra features makes sense for this kind of service? The software needs maintenance and new hardware is always being released so new bugs. Better methods of netow and transcoding etc, this kind of software isn't a drop and run, it still needs work after release. So I get the need to form some kind of long term sustainability, we all saw it coming.