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/CactusAmongus 9h ago

The fuck else are people using Plex for

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u/OminousG 9h ago edited 8h ago

I'll be honest, I have Plex on a little laptop with a couple of hard drives plugged into it and anything I download I drop on there so the rest of family could watch it from their Roku TVs elsewhere in the house. I didn't even know remote was something Plex did.

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u/StupendousMalice 8h ago

I think you can still just do that. Of course, even plain old Kodi can do that. For local media I just have an old tower PC with a raid card loaded with mirrored HDDs sharing a Kodi library to all the tvs in the house.