Plex’s crackdown on free remote streaming access starts this week
arstechnica.com
Roku users will be hit first.

Plex is starting to enforce its new rules, which prevent users from remotely accessing a personal media server without a subscription fee.

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  • roofuskit@lemmy.worldEnglish
    19·
    10 hours ago

    Lol, guess who just made themselves a target. They are now profiting directly on people who stream content they don’t own from other people’s servers. Plex is going to go down when Hollywood sues them.

    • nixon@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      21·
      10 hours ago

      I believe if the server hosting the content has a plex pass then end users are allowed to stream from it without any additional subscription or membership. At least that is how it was several months ago when they announced this.

      But you are right, even with the above being true, there will still be a non-insignificant portion of users paying to stream from servers.

      • Kairos@lemmy.todayEnglish
        3·
        6 hours ago

        Only old accounts are grandfathered into this for sharing libraries to other plex accounts.