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

• 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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      • TrickDacy@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        There are other options if you want something entirely free. I’m actually surprised that feature was ever free.

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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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