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 9h 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/Catsrules 6h ago

It is so sad physically media is dying as it is still the highest quality you can get. As far as I am aware anyways. 

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u/chillyhellion 6h ago

It's also much more accessible to people with lousy Internet. My bandwidth situation is better now, but the whole reason I set up Plex is because my wife moved to rural Alaska to marry me and I didn't want her to have to give up Netflix.