Comment on Plex is locking remote streaming behind a subscription in April
pivot_root@lemmy.world 4 weeks agoVery, 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.
Revan343@lemmy.ca 4 weeks ago
To be fair, they didn’t say that they needed more resources for remote streaming
pivot_root@lemmy.world 4 weeks 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”
Revan343@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
Oh yeah, I am in no way arguing in favour of it