Comment on Plex has paywalled my server!

grue@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• FarmTaco@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  well, except WinRAR

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  • Tuxman@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    What do you mean WinRAR isn’t free?!

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    • Emerald@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Non-free vs not free of charge

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      • mobotsar@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        True, though WinRar is technically neither.

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• pwnicholson@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I thought free software was when you were the product and non-free software actually supported developers.

  Or do you mean non-OSS?

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  • llii@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    “Free Software” is a defined term: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_software

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  • SpaceCadet@feddit.nl ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Free as in freedom, not as in free beer.

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    • Nilz@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I thought we switched to libre for that definition and since then used free only as in free beer.

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      • MouldyCat@feddit.uk ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        I thought we switched to libre

        Maybe some people did. Thing is there’s a whole rest-of-the-world out there, and they didn’t necessarily get the memo or are happy with the existing way.

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      • SpaceCadet@feddit.nl ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Libre (from French) is sometimes used to solve the ambiguity of the word free in the English language, but it sounds kinda awkward in English and there’s certainly no consensus that this should be the official replacement, or that the term free even needs replacement.

        Furthermore, the FSF who originally came up with the idea of “free software” still exists and is still called the Free Software Foundation, though Stallman uses both terms interchangeably.

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  • Ephera@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Yeah, the wording is confusing. A long time ago, there was no paid software, there was only software where you got the source code and other software where e.g. it was pre-installed on some hardware and the manufacturer didn’t want to give the source code.

    In that time, a whole movement started fighting for software freedom, so they called their software “free”.

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  • grue@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I mean non-Free Software.

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• Retro_unlimited@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I just wonder if plex will ever sell the list of movies and IP address of everyone. Many people have the ARRs to auto download, even stuff still in theaters. What good is a VPN when plex knows your email and IP.

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  • rumba@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Honestly, I’d be rather shocked if this wasn’t already the case.

    Moreover they probably have a database of everything you’ve ever watched and your IP and email address, just waiting to be leaked to the internet through sale or ransom.

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  • grue@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Sell or get subpoena’d; tomayto, tomahto.

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• haui_lemmy@lemmy.giftedmc.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  A little oversymplified but i’ll take it. :)

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