Comment on That's all folks, Plex is starting to charge for sharing

• PP_BOY_@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  That isn’t true. A Plex pass from the server owner will cover access for all users

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  • NameTaken@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Yeah if you already have a lifetime pass then essentially nothing changes. They also did the right thing about giving people a pretty good heads up to purchase a lifetime pass before they raised the price.

    Your users may have gotten the notice (my family didn’t) but they can ignore it if the server owner has a lifetime pass.

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  • scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    What do you want me to say? I hold a plex pass. I’m the server owner. My users are receiving that email.

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    • pory@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Yes, they’re being advertised to. In theory this is because they might be clients for non-Pass servers in addition to yours. In practice, Plex could easily verify Plex client accounts that don’t run a server or have access to non-Pass servers and skip sending this marketing email to those accounts. What they’re doing is trying to convince your users they need to pay a sub fee (even though they don’t), because it’s free money in Plex’s pocket if the users do click the thing and say “welp, still cheaper than netflix”

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      • ToffeeIsForClosers@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        Their email and even their “Plex: Free vs Paid” page is confusing. However, the “Requirements for Remote Playback of Personal Media“ is more clear.

        I do not have a Plex Pass, but I stream remotely from a Plex Media Server

        To stream video remotely from a Plex Media Server, you will need either a Remote Watch Pass or Plex Pass subscription on your account or the admin of the Plex Media Server from which you stream will need a Plex Pass subscription on their account.

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      • scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        If that’s the case, then best case they’re being incredbily scummy and my users are getting lied to. Of which, I won’t just let them pay monthly for something they don’t need.

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• i_stole_ur_taco@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Read the email again. The key word in their marketing slop is “alternatively”. You have a Plex Pass and are the server admin. Your users need to do nothing.

  Unfortunately, that does mean I have to respond to messages from all my users asking what that email means and convince them they can just ignore it.

  A second “nice” part of this change is that iOS users no longer have to buy the Plex app on the App Store to stream longer than a minute. The app is only like 5 bucks one time, but it was a barrier when trying to convince stubborn people to just fucking TRY my Plex server.

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