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That's all folks, Plex is starting to charge for sharing (poptalk.scrubbles.tech)

submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech to c/plex@lemmy.ca

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I was just forwarded this someone in my household who watches our server. That's it folks. I've been a hold out for a long time, but this is honestly it.

They want me to pay to stream content that I bought from my hardware transcoded also on my hardware.

I'll say it. As of today, I say Plex is dead. Luckily I've been setting up Jellyfin, I guess it's time to make it production ready.

Edit I have a Plex Pass. More comments saying "Just buy a plex pass" are seriously not getting it. I have a Plex Pass and my users are still getting this.

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[–] webghost0101@sopuli.xyz 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Been using Jellyfin since plex started to annoy me for using it without an account.

[–] masterspace@lemmy.ca 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

My god people.

If you setup Wireguard to use Jellyfin remotely, that would also get around Plex's fees for remote streaming.

[–] webghost0101@sopuli.xyz 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Am i reading this wrong?

If you use Jellyfin you no longer need plex. You can both host it on your own domain or do the vpn method.

If you really want to keep using plex then the vpn method will bypass the new restriction but i recommend not staying with software that limits what you can do with it when alternatives exist.

[–] masterspace@lemmy.ca -2 points 2 months ago

"Alternatives" https://github.com/jellyfin/jellyfin/issues/5415

[–] _cryptagion@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

All I know is I've been told over and over and over that Plex is better than Jellyfin because of reasons, so this latest move won't have me changing my mind!

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[–] twinnie@feddit.uk 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I’m all for switching to FOSS alternatives but this is like complaining that video game companies charge you for playing games on your own computer. Maybe they’re just struggling financially.

[–] ocassionallyaduck@lemmy.world -2 points 2 months ago

More like complaining if a game company comes back to make your game worse after you paid.

"Yea I know you were enjoying Elden Ring and paid for it and host the multiplayer server yourself, but for reasons, all endgame content is going to require players to login and verify a subscription status to play online. Also greatsword have been depreciated and will be relaunched as a separate client: Elden Sword."

[–] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech -1 points 2 months ago (9 children)

and what the hell do they think they deserve my money for anyway? What feature have they brought server owners over the last... 2 or 3 years? Seriously what have they done for us? Last thing I remember is credit skip - which was years ago now.

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