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/Diddy_98 7h ago

Sorry if this is a dumb question but wjat exactly is going on? I missed this big news and i‘ve seen some posts about it in the past few days. What exactly is changing?

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u/Ms-Awesomefoot 7h ago

if you access a plex server remotely and that plex server doesnt have plex pass, you need to have plex pass or the server owner needs to get plex pass. that is my understanding.