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That's all folks, Plex is starting to charge for sharing (lemmynsfw.com)

submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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

Yeah, or that they misconfigured something or didn't sign into their account, or that it's a random bug.

Because if you have a Plex pass your users don't have to pay anything for remote streaming. And OP is apparently unaware of the well publicized change so I'm thinking they're the unreliable narrator.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

I have a lifetime pass. Shared user got this message. It seems like a generic alert to people without a pass.

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

@potpotato @masterspace oml, that's completely bollocks. I guess I might not bother getting it running again - bought a lifetime pass ages ago, and have run multiple servers on and off. But if sharing to my family isn't free anymore, there's no point in running it.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

Jesus, please read the other comments.

If you have a pass, it’s free to share for you and your guests.

Plex may no longer be a value, but this doesn’t really change anything for passholders. To OP’s point, even if they change the terms in the future, they’ve pulled enough value for the cost and are therefore happy with the service.

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