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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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[–] MajesticElevator@lemmy.zip -2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

You state that you have a plex pass and are a server owner. In that case you shouldn’t be affected, yet you’re saying you are… what?

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[–] Kyle@lemmy.ca -2 points 2 months ago (3 children)

They sent the same message out months ago, and sent it again recently to all users. Nothing has changed since the first email. Plex pass owners that run a server are fine and can still stream to their users.

I guess lots of people missed or didn't get the first message/outrage on fediverse the first time it happened.

Took me a bit to realise people are still talking about the same thing and that this isn't new.

I'll move over to jellyfin once the features ease of use and security parity is there. Or if Plex becomes a security issue by being hosted in the states. Until then I'm going to keep milking my Plex pass lifetime account from 10 years ago.

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[–] twinnie@feddit.uk -3 points 2 months ago (2 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.

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