Important 2025 Plex Updates
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We are also changing how remote playback works for streaming personal media (that is, playback when not on the same local network as the server). The reality is that we need more resources to continue putting forth the best personal media experience, and as a result, we will no longer offer remote playback as a free feature. This—alongside the new Plex Pass pricing—will help provide those resources. This change will apply to the future release of our new Plex experience for mobile and other platforms.

  • Rhonda SandtitsEnglish
    0•30 days ago

    The reality is that we need more resources to continue putting forth the best personal media experience

    How stupid do they think we are?

    • @pivot_root@lemmy.worldEnglish
      0•30 days ago

      Very, apparently.

      They use UPnP and NAT-PMP1 to have clients directly stream the media from users’ own self-hosted servers. It costs them almost nothing in bandwidth to do that.

        • @pivot_root@lemmy.worldEnglish
          0•29 days ago

          Fair enough, although that actually has worse optics IMO. It goes from “this costs us money, so pay us” to “we need money, so we’re creating an artificial reason for you to pay us”

    • Unruffled [they/them]English
      0•30 days ago

      Here, I fixed it:

      The reality is that we need more resourcesmoney to continue putting forth the best personal media experienceincrease our profit margins.