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Plex’s crackdown on free remote streaming access starts this week - Ars Technica (arstechnica.com)

submitted 6 months ago by otters_raft@lemmy.ca to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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Plex is starting to enforce its new rules, which prevent users from remotely accessing a personal media server without a subscription fee.

If anyone needs it: https://jellyfin.org/

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[–] warm@kbin.earth 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Isn't that the point of major version upgrades? To make breaking changes?

[–] MaggiWuerze@feddit.org 7 points 6 months ago

Its also possible for a webserver to offer two versions of an API. Add a new one that needs authentication, mark the old one as deprecated and add a checkbox to disable it. Then clients can update to use the secure one and if you use and unmaintained client you can enable the old insecure api