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Plex is locking remote streaming behind a subscription in April (www.plex.tv)

submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Ahoy mateys, it's time to setup Jellyfin if you prefer not to pay for the privilege of self-hosting your own content.

cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/27204525

We are also changing how remote playback works for streaming personal media (that is, playback when not on the same local network as the server). The reality is that we need more resources to continue putting forth the best personal media experience, and as a result, we will no longer offer remote playback as a free feature. This—alongside the new Plex Pass pricing—will help provide those resources. This change will apply to the future release of our new Plex experience for mobile and other platforms.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Paying devs

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (3 children)

What does that have to do with my friends streaming from my server?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

they never said they needed resources for the remote playback… they said that they needed more resources - ie money to develop the software in general, and this are feature gating a useful feature to try and convince people to pay

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

they never said they needed resources for the remote playback…

That's exactly what it sounds like to me...

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

that’s fine… but it’s not necessarily what it says. it’s ambiguous at best, but if they’d meant they need you to pay them for resources then theyd probably say it more outright

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Their revenue stream is based on license fees for the software? So if they want to keep the lights on they need money

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Okay so you agree it's nothing to do with "resources" and everything to do with locking features behind paywalls to drive up revenue?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

developers are a "resource" and they need to be paid. Do you want to keep getting updates for your server? Someone needs to do that and that someone wants to be paid in this case

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Did they write their own software?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

The software already exists, and has for decades.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Then just ask them if they would share their work for free, or recreate it yourself?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

They're already sharing it for free