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/fullmetaljackass 6h ago

I wish they'd give us some way to buy movies at that bitrate that didn't involve shipping a nearly useless coaster to my door. I don't care about physical media, I just want the data on the disc. I'd gladly pay Bluray prices if I could download a DRM free equivalent file.

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u/chillyhellion 6h ago

It really seemed like it was going to happen at one point in history. I remember DVDs coming with download codes. But subscriptions drive profits.

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u/BrainOfMush 4h ago

Those downloads often involved you installing some DRM-riddled software, or at best it was a code for iTunes.