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[–] lordziv@lemmy.nz 0 points 1 day ago (2 children)

But when you want to give access to others outside of your network they need to subscribe to a plan to get a watch pass. That's the main issue a lot of people are facing.

[–] FreedomAdvocate 2 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago)

Not if you’ve got a lifetime license, which anyone running a Plex server should already have.

Also if you want to give access to your jellyfin server to people, well you’re shit out of luck basically. You’re out of luck if you want to even watch jellyfin on most devices that aren’t a pc or android device.

[–] loppwn@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

The person you replied to has a lifetime-license, so no need for the clients to have a separate plan. Edit: Only thing where a separate license is needed afaik is the Download/Offline Watching feature. This will not work if a plex license owner adds a new User. Old/Existing Users can still use the download function. Here Plex made a change i think around 2 years ago.