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

• pory@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Server costs? Plex’s serverside only handles auth and verification. Once the client connects to the server, any media is sent peer to peer. There’s no stage where the video goes “to plex” or “from plex”. Saying plex needs to charge a sub fee to make up for bandwidth is like saying qbittorrent should do the same.

  Unless you’re talking about the content Plex serves, the ones you have to walk every user of your Plex server through deleting from their apps’ homepage.

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  • HappyTimeHarry@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Im talking about all of plexs infrastructure, the hosting for the app, providing tunnels for users without port fwding, maintaining user accounts and usage data, emails… A lot goes into running a service like plex besides just “auth and verification”…and thats not even including the staff required to maintain it and developers to keep all the apps updated.

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• LandedGentry@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  That’s not my problem 🤷‍♂️

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  • HappyTimeHarry@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    It will be if you depend on plex for streaming

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    • LandedGentry@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      I don’t really understand the point you’re making. When something doesn’t work anymore it doesn’t work?

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      • HappyTimeHarry@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        Point is you are setting yourself up for disappointment in the future.

        Like you see this constant cycle of software becoming wosre as the companies want more and more money and your response is just “yeah but it wont affect my use case so i dont care”

        Yeah im sure when it comes to plex, the app based off making pirates into paying customers, it wont fall victim to the same thing.

        Gee leopards seem to be getting awful fat lately.

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  • ripcord@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    It’s your problem now. This is the kind of thing that happens.

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    • GreenKnight23@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      yes, but actually no.

      Plex pass members can continue sharing.

      this isn’t directed just at you, but the whole jellyfin community in general.

      not sure why, but the jellyfin community seems to be becoming toxic as fuck. I’m getting hard “best friend” vibes from it. if the Plex community leaves for jellyfin it’ll be on their own terms. just be welcoming to us and your numbers will grow.

      if y’all keep acting like a jealous “guy” friend we’re likely to go somewhere else.

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    • LandedGentry@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Well it’s not happening now and it hasn’t happened yet and I’ve enjoyed my Plex pass for several years. So I’ll just keep doing what I do while you seethe about it.

      I guess I could tremble and fear of some vague threat because some random dude on Lemmy says it’s going to happen. It’s not like he’s just pissy about Plex or something and has an ax to grind and would reach for any possible thing he can say to make it look bad. Nope, wouldn’t do that

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      • ripcord@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        Uh, ok

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    • FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      It’s not though, because as someone that has a Plex Pass nothing changes for them or anyone who streams from their server.

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