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.

  • macniel@feddit.orgEnglish
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    3 months ago

    They can just adjust their pricing like that without a warning before hand? Who do they think they are?

    Sad to see Plex becoming another target of enshittification.

    enjoy intro pricing on a Remote Watch Pass

    why would someone enjoy paying for what was free?!

    • Scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.techOPEnglish
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      3 months ago

      Right? Absolutely ludicrous. I can’t get over how they can be so arrogant to think they deserve money for that. It’s core functionality that existed before they forked off of emby. They didn’t even write that code. Then they have no infrastructure for it, because it transcodes and streams from my server over my network. Any infrastructure they have in that process is nothing I wanted (looking at the auth that for some reason needs to phone home).

      No, this is too far, I’m officially leaving Plex.

      • masterspace@lemmy.caEnglish
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        3 months ago

        Incorrect.

        They are not charging for local streaming on your network. They are just charging for remote streaming, something that wasn’t part of emby, does use their servers and network bandwidth, and chews up a huge amount of development time.

        For comparison, do let us all know which media server youre jumping to that supports secure and seamless remote streaming across a wide variety of devices and ecosystems

        Just buy a lifetime Plex Pass and pay for the software you use. If you had years ago this wouldn’t be a problem and you literally would not notice that money being gone at this point.

        $150 to perpetually operate a media server with free software updates is a ridiculous deal.

              • masterspace@lemmy.caEnglish
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                3 months ago

                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.

                • potpotato@lemmy.worldEnglish
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                  3 months ago

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