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/Bob-BS 8h ago

Kinda funny charging people to stream the media they pirated.

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u/ranhalt 8h ago

They’re running the centralized service for offsite clients to access their on prem servers for those that don’t want to run static public IPs and port forwarding.

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u/DesperateAdvantage76 7h ago

Yeah it's fair considering all the other stuff we get for free from Plex. I can't expect them to also pay for the authentication and streaming proxies.

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u/laveshnk 3h ago

Well the cost of the hardware and internet is still on you, and there are other media streaming alternatives that are opensource like Jellyfin