Oh, ffs, really? That’s kind of the reason for a download feature.
Pricks.
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FlexibleToast@lemmy.world 3 days agoThey seriously enshitified the download feature. You used to be able to set it to download X number of unplayed episodes. Then it would manage downloading fresh content for you as you watched stuff. Now you have to manually download each and every episode yourself. This was literally the killer feature Plex had over Jellyfin for me.
Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe 2 days ago
LavaPlanet@lemm.ee 3 days ago
I think they’re getting pressure re the pirating aspect. I could imagine the bigger they get the bigger the magnifying glass will be held up to them. They’re probably doing some fancy footwork to be able to remain in production / avoid lawsuits and similar pressure.
FlexibleToast@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Sure, that’s why they keep adding features people don’t want. But gimping one of their key paid features makes no sense to me.
Robust_Mirror@aussie.zone 3 days ago
I would imagine its harder to argue you don’t condone your users using it for piracy when you have a feature that automatically does stuff very closely related to piracy. I’m not going to get into an argument over whether it’s defensible legally or not, but it makes sense to me that they play it safer than not.