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

Couldbealeotard@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

• FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  The closest thing to justification I can figure is “all my clients are borderline illiterate as well and it upset them”.

  And now OP is saying that he’s switching to Jellfin and thinks that all of his borderline illiterate “clients” will be ok with using a VPN to access Jellyfin, if their device even has Jellyfin lol.

  Also the way that OP says “users” and “clients” makes it pretty clear that he is charging people for access to his library. He is ok with making money off Plex’s work, but hates the idea of Plex making money.

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  • GregorGizeh@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    I’m just curious, why are you so vehemently defending a shitty move by a corporation? No matter how you tackle the issue, taking away a function that used to be free and evidently has no costs associated to the corp is a textbook example of enshittification.

    It is pretty damn obvious how this will continue.

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    • nekusoul@lemmy.nekusoul.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      I’m almost certain it’a troll, maybe even a previously banned one. Given their username it would be very ironic otherwise, considering that, so far, in the week they created the accounyt, hey only commented to rail against things that respect user freedom.

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      • TheTechnician27@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        Dollars to donuts it’s the corpo-fascist “tread on me harder, daddy” version of “freedom” they’re advocating for.

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    • FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      “Shitty move by a corporation”? You mean requiring the person that’s using their flagship all encompassing flagship software product to pay a one off fee? A one off fee that seemingly most people who host a Plex server already bought?

      Software costs money to make and maintain. You’re not entitled to it for free. Plex’s software is legitimately great and is the only software on the market that does what it does and makes it as easy as it is.

      and evidently has no costs associated to the corp

      As has been pointed out many times in here, this is wrong. Plex have hardware that is used when many, probably most, people stream remotely. Also developers cost money to employ. Developers make the software that is regularly updated. They deserve to be paid, don’t they?

      It is pretty damn obvious how this will continue.

      So you agree the same thing will happen to JellyFin then, right? So why even bother getting Jellyfin set up now when it will inevitably happen there too?

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      • GregorGizeh@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        First of all, I don’t have a horse in this race. My media is stored locally and used only by my household. I really don’t give a shit if a corporation needs more revenue to satisfy their infinite growthTM.

        My issue is with how they are doing it. Provide an extra service or function, introduce a higher tier with priority treatment or so. Thats fine with me.

        What’s not fine is taking something away people used to get for free, because the shitty venture capital business model isn’t feasible and only provided these things to capture the market, and now comes the nickel and diming part of providing ever fewer services and functions for ever increasing amounts of money.

        As for jellyfin, thats open source AFAIK. So why even mention that here as some sort of gotcha? If it enshittifies people will fork it and move on.

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