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

• pory@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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 ⁨month⁩ 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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    • pory@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Yes, that is correct. It’s because the people that read the email only, or read the email and click one (1) link, are likely to be less familiar with Plex as a platform than the server owner, and Plex the company would very much like people to pay them $7 a month forever for literally nothing.

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  • scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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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    • pory@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      It’s scummy advertising, yes. Designed to prey on a Plex server operator’s likely-less-tech-literate users.

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      • scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        And that should be enough right there to get all server owners to drop Plex

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    • suicidaleggroll@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      They likely streamed from some other Plex server in the past, and that’s why they’re getting the email. The email specifically states that if the server owner has a plex pass, you don’t need one.

      I got the email earlier today and it couldn’t be clearer:

      As a server owner, if you elect to upgrade to a Plex Pass, anyone with access to your server can continue streaming your server content remotely as part of your subscription benefits.

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      • scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        I know for a fact that minimum one of them has not, the second email I would be extremely surprised if they had.

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