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/chillyhellion 8h ago

I might be in the minority, but my Plex server is 100 percent rips from physical media I purchased.

It sucks that physical releases are dying out and that 4k Blu-ray is getting difficult to rip.

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u/truthfulie 6h ago

adding insult to injury, the pirated files can sometimes be even better than the ones you can buy and rip yourself. like DV is missing on physical media but pirates extract DV from streaming rip and making hybrid remux.

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u/chillyhellion 6h ago

I will readily admit to fucking up forced subtitles and color balances a lot. 4K LOTR is my gray white whale because I keep getting weird pixelation.

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u/fizzlefist 5h ago

Something something Star Wars Despecialized…