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Plex’s crackdown on free remote streaming access starts this week (arstechnica.com)
submitted 11 months ago by to c/plex@lemmy.ca
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[–] -1 points 11 months ago (6 children)

I never once found plex to be user friendly for me, it required me to leave my laptop running at all times or buy a dedicated pc for it. I find it infinitely easier to just Pirate what I want and put it on a usb stick or hdmi the laptop to the tv. For me plex was always a thing I felt I never had a use for

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  • [–] 5 points 11 months ago* (4 children)

    it required me to leave my laptop running at all times or buy a dedicated pc for it.

    Yeah, that's not exactly a software issue ... you can't stream data out of thin air.

    find it infinitely easier to just Pirate what I want and put it on a usb stick or hdmi the laptop to the tv.

    That's pretty cute, but get's kind of tedious when you have thousands of movies and tens-of-thousand TV show episodes. That's when you'll see the need for a software like plex.

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  • [–] 0 points 11 months ago (3 children)

    I can’t view thousands of movies and episodes at once, why would I want it all on my HD? Anyways, plex just seems like a bloated solution to a problem it invented.

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  • [–] 5 points 11 months ago (2 children)

    Maybe you want to watch them later?

    Anyway, I suggest you don't use it then and keep on shuffling around with your usb stick.

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  • [–] 1 point 11 months ago (1 child)

    As someone with too many shows and movies on my Plex, I agree with his methods.

    My life would be simpler if I torrented, watched once, and deleted.

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  • [–] 1 point 11 months ago*

    I disagree. What if you want to rewatch some old obscure show? Also I share my server with a bunch of people, it would be very hard to keep track of what everyone wants to watch with an on-demand system.

    Also streaming services removing shows is one of my pet peeve, so I'm really against deleting anything.

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