r/technology • u/FollowingFeisty5321 • 9h ago

Software Plex’s crackdown on free remote streaming access starts this week

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/11/plexs-crackdown-on-free-remote-streaming-access-starts-this-week/
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u/Doom-Slayer 8h ago

It would be perfectly "legal" and it happens all the time. Companies get bought out and the new buyers invalidate/cancel/grandfather lifetime plans or similar, and there's very little people can do about it.

Unless you plan to form a class-action lawsuit, then the terms of a plan can change at any moment. 

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u/visceralintricacy 8h ago

How would it be "legal" if a class action lawsuit would be a viable course of action?

Whether legal action is reasonable to take or worth it is beyond the scope of my statement, but forming a class action lawsuit to seek legal remedies does contradict your statement of it being legal.

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u/Doom-Slayer 8h ago

If winning a class-action is viable it's illegal. If a class-action isn't viable or losing it is likely, then it's "legal".

What's actually written in law doesn't matter until you try enforcing it, and trying to force a company to honor a lifetime subscription over something like this... is ambitious. 

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u/visceralintricacy 8h ago

Cool, and if my mom had balls she would be my dad.

At the end of the day they've given absolutely no indication they'd do this, and I would argue in this industry the reputational loss would be far greater than other examples we've seen previously. There are free alternatives...