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

submitted 2 days 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] 3 points 1 day 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] 2 points 1 day 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] 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day 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