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

• TrickDacy@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  No but the fact that software is reasonable to charge for does.

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  • Tanka@lemmings.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Don’t you understand it’s a feature that doesn’t require any of there servers. It uses your internet. They could charge for other things but this one, no.

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    • TrickDacy@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      But they develop the software and need to fund that regardless of technical reasons.

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      • Tanka@lemmings.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Ok, they can still do that for better features and not just for something that can be done for free. They also went public and made a lot ofoney which now the investors also want. Not my problem.

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    • Mendicant_Bias@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Doesn’t it use their servers to set up the connection between the client and the host? And I seem to recall that if you have a double NAT situation (or something like that) then it will actually stream the content over their servers as well.

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    • MaggiWuerze@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      But the remote streaming uses their servers. If you wanted to direct stream without involving your servers you already needed a vpn

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• j0ester@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  I never stated if it does or does not. But seems like a lot of people are surprised about this news.

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