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Plex’s crackdown on free remote streaming access starts this week - Ars Technica (arstechnica.com)
submitted 11 months ago by to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
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Plex is starting to enforce its new rules, which prevent users from remotely accessing a personal media server without a subscription fee.

If anyone needs it: https://jellyfin.org/

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[–] 7 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Pure rent seeking. It's not the only example. So many products have artificial defects deliberately added by the manufacturer so that they can then charge you to disable the defect.

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  • [–] 4 points 11 months ago

    Years ago now, they pushed an offer for lifetime subscription onto my server. I clicked it, went through to their website and bought it, paid, the subscription activated and worked.

    The next day they emailed to say actually i wasn't eligible for the offer, they cancelled it and refunded me and said it would actually cost $30 more.

    I installed Jellyfin that same day, it was pretty buggy back then but was definitely the right decision.

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