this post was submitted on 01 May 2025
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I was just forwarded this someone in my household who watches our server. That's it folks. I've been a hold out for a long time, but this is honestly it.

They want me to pay to stream content that I bought from my hardware transcoded also on my hardware.

I'll say it. As of today, I say Plex is dead. Luckily I've been setting up Jellyfin, I guess it's time to make it production ready.

Edit I have a Plex Pass. More comments saying "Just buy a plex pass" are seriously not getting it. I have a Plex Pass and my users are still getting this.

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[–] masterspace@lemmy.ca -3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

My god people.

If you setup Wireguard to use Jellyfin remotely, that would also get around Plex's fees for remote streaming.

[–] webghost0101@sopuli.xyz 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Am i reading this wrong?

If you use Jellyfin you no longer need plex. You can both host it on your own domain or do the vpn method.

If you really want to keep using plex then the vpn method will bypass the new restriction but i recommend not staying with software that limits what you can do with it when alternatives exist.