Comment on That's all folks, Plex is starting to charge for sharing
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?
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.
FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au 1 week ago
Oh so they don’t deserve to be paid for their work, the only reason they’d be after money is for “infinite growthTM”?
I agree that’s never good, but what’s the alternative? Go out of business? Insert ads into your streaming of local content?
I mention JellyFin because at some stage it will become a business and they’ll start charging too, or it will get left behind because it’s free. People can fork all they want, but businesses that provide services can’t do so for free for eternity.
Is there even anyone that runs a plex server who doesn’t have a lifetime plex pass these days?
1hitsong@lemmy.ml 1 week ago
Opinion of 1 Jellyfin programmer
Citation needed.
What do you mean left behind? By who? Anyway, what’s wrong with being left behind?
We’re not beholden to anyone. We’re not in competition with anyone. We’re not in a race, so I don’t understand how we could get left behind.
We’ll keep doing what we do with the amazing team of people who volunteer their time, and other solutions can do whatever they want to do, I don’t care because, again, it’s not a competition!
FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au 1 week ago
No citation needed. They’ll either do it one day or the software will languish behind in obscurity.
Nothing I guess, other than the competition getting further and further ahead and your users leaving for them.
You definitely are. JellyFin doesn’t exist in a vaccuum. You might not feel like its competition, but the jellyfin software competes with all the other media streaming software out there.
GregorGizeh@lemmy.zip 1 week ago
Why are you skipping over the alternative venues of revenue I suggested that wouldn’t be as problematic? Because without you couldn’t paint me as irrational, asking the poor corpo to not make more money than last quarter at their customers expense 😔
They can pay their employees just fine. They do this because the investors want their returns.
FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au 1 week ago
Adding extra tiers that only the people who already bought a Plex pass would buy? If you run a Plex server and haven’t got a Plex pass by now, you were never going to unless they did what they’re doing now, as it’s basically feature complete.
You don’t really seem to understand that businesses need revenue and profit to survive, publicly traded or private. You’d rather see Plex die than have their most hardcore users have to pay a tiny fee?
Couldbealeotard@lemmy.world 1 week ago
They are providing extra service. Using Plex on mobile is now free for everyone, which is a huge step forward. It’s not a bad trade off for server owners to require Plex pass for remote viewing (which is only necessary if you’re not using a VPN like tailscale for free remote viewing).
I don’t get why people are freaking out over a one off fee to unlock something that has running costs for Plex, which itself isn’t necessary if you just opt for a free VPN client like tailscale.