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Comment on That's all folks, Plex is starting to charge for sharing
HappyTimeHarry@lemm.ee 3 weeks agoHow mamy months of server costs do you think those lifetime passes cover? If everyone just paid once for a lifetime then plex as a service can no longer function.
LandedGentry@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
HappyTimeHarry@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
It will be if you depend on plex for streaming
LandedGentry@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
[deleted]HappyTimeHarry@lemm.ee 3 weeks 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.
ripcord@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
It’s your problem now. This is the kind of thing that happens.
GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 3 weeks 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.
FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au 3 weeks ago
It’s not though, because as someone that has a Plex Pass nothing changes for them or anyone who streams from their server.
pory@lemmy.world 3 weeks 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.
HappyTimeHarry@lemm.ee 3 weeks 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.