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

• ozoned@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I’m not personally. I’d run a VPN for others to connect in. Apparently a lot of folks just expose it to the internet and then enforce logins.

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  • mtoboggan@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Using a VPN would be local streaming with Plex, too. The new rules wouldn’t apply then.

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    • CmdrShepard42@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I’m no expert but I was never able to connect to Plex if the host was running a VPN which caused me a ton of issues until I figured out split tunneling.

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      • FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        If the host is on a VPN then you need access to that VPN to be able to access Plex.

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  • Cocodapuf@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Gross

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• Kecessa@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  My whole family streams from my brother’s server hundreds of km away…

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• TangledHyphae@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I’m doing it with a jellyfin client to my friend’s jellyfin server.

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• fossilesque@mander.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  My mom streams mine across an ocean.

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• ifItWasUpToMe@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  The same way you’d set up remote plex.

  Plex will have some cost associated with remote streaming, so I don’t see any issue with them charging for that.

  If people don’t want to pay then they should just set it up themselves, like they would have to do with jellyfin anyways.

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  • CmdrShepard42@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    No it’s not the same as with Plex because they have their own security solution and authentication servers. With Jellyfin that’s completely on you to figure out and doing it wrong (exposing open ports to the open internet) can have terrible consequences.

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  • ryan@social.binarydad.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    @ifItWasUpToMe @ripcord I'm not sure if I'm understanding. What costs are there to plex remote streaming? The streaming aspect is coming directly from my plex server public IP. I know there is some option that proxies the traffic through their servers but this isn't enabled by default.

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    • ifItWasUpToMe@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Mainly STUN and TURN servers to allow NAT traversal without having to configure port forwarding and leave your server exposed to the internet.

      It’ll use those servers to setup a peer-to-peer connection which at that point you are streaming directly to clients.

      If you want to setup a VPN for your users, or open/forward public ports to your server then you do not need to pay.

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      • melmi@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Do you have a source for this claim that the new pricing scheme only applies to the Plex Relays? As far as I can tell it applies to anything they consider “remote access”, regardless of whether it goes through their servers or not.

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    • CmdrShepard42@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      The Plex Relay is enabled by default and is used anytime people can’t directly connect to your server like if your port forwarding is screwed up.

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• Kusimulkku@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Give them the address of the server?

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• TheButtonJustSpins@infosec.pub ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I was forcing VPN for a couple years but I’ve just recently started allowlisting client IPs instead. Not as good but definitely easier.

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• Alph4d0g@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Tailscale.

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  • dave@lemmy.wtf ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    you can add 3 friends on the free tier of tailscale. might work for some people but others might have to pay for tailscale.

    does anyone know is it possible to get around issue by running headscale yourself? can you add as many friends as you like then? maybe something like netbird might be a better option since its fully self hosted?

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    • Unmapped@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Its a lot simpler then that. Dont add them to your tailscale account. Each user should have there own tailscale account. Then you just send them a link to share your machine (your server) with their tailnet. Then all of there devices they have added on their account can access your server.

      Bonus: send them referrals and you get your device limit increased when they make a account. Which all the have to do is sign in with google or apple.

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• Chastity2323@midwest.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Reverse proxy + fail2ban

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