Comment on FFS Plex, the server is on my local network
absentbird@lemmy.world 3 weeks agoThat isn’t how it used to work.
Why would they care what subnet the request is coming from? That’s wack.
Comment on FFS Plex, the server is on my local network
absentbird@lemmy.world 3 weeks agoThat isn’t how it used to work.
Why would they care what subnet the request is coming from? That’s wack.
themachine@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Correct. Remote streaming used to be free. That changed…in April? I don’t remember the exact date but it was announced earlier this year and has been slowly rolling out. Now you either have to have a Plex pass for your server or each user who wants to remote stream has to pay for a remote watching subscription and show in OPs screenshot.
There are of course ways to get around this such as all your users being on a VPN so as far as Plex can see its “internal”.
absentbird@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
That makes sense. I’ve only hosted Plex through a proxy or VPN anyway for networking and security reasons, but it’s pretty shitty to force it just out of greed.
I am also planning to move to JellyFin, but more out of open source fanaticism than financial reasons.
themachine@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Yeah I didnt abandon Plex because I couldn’t afford it. I have a number of gripes with plex but as long as it remained free I had no strong motivated to get rid of it. Now that I would have to pay though I have no interest in keeping it around. I am quite happy with jellyfin even if it may lack polish on some of its facets and I regularly accept inconvenience to uphold my own operating philosphies.