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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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[–] sirico@feddit.uk 10 points 23 hours ago (4 children)

The only reason I went with plex was easy remote access. Now with the state on reverse proxies and tailscale tunnels we happily ditched it.

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[–] roofuskit@lemmy.world 20 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Lol, guess who just made themselves a target. They are now profiting directly on people who stream content they don't own from other people's servers. Plex is going to go down when Hollywood sues them.

[–] nixon@sh.itjust.works 25 points 1 day ago (4 children)

I believe if the server hosting the content has a plex pass then end users are allowed to stream from it without any additional subscription or membership. At least that is how it was several months ago when they announced this.

But you are right, even with the above being true, there will still be a non-insignificant portion of users paying to stream from servers.

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