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We are also changing how remote playback works for streaming personal media (that is, playback when not on the same local network as the server). The reality is that we need more resources to continue putting forth the best personal media experience, and as a result, we will no longer offer remote playback as a free feature. This—alongside the new Plex Pass pricing—will help provide those resources. This change will apply to the future release of our new Plex experience for mobile and other platforms.

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 10 hours ago (2 children)

Streaming requires high-performance, high-bandwidth machines that cost anywhere from several dozen dollars to several hundred dollars a month. You build a resilient high-availability network, and you could easily be looking at several tens of thousands of dollars a month.

Are you under the impression that Plex uploads the movie files to their servers and then transcodes them there, or something?

And the hard work happens on your own hardware. All Plex's servers are doing is acting as a signaling server, but no media or routed through Plex's servers.

[–] kogasa 6 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

It depends on if you use the "relay" feature. If your server is accessible from the outside it shouldn't be using this though.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 hours ago

First thing I disable.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Plex actually does have streaming services. The ones we've never asked for. And live tv.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

But the blog post from Plex was specifically talking about charging for remotely accessing your own files. So your point is irrelevant to the discussion.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 24 minutes ago

How is it irrelevant? Plex offers a bunch of services that cost them money that we don't use, so they jacked up prices for streaming our own data.