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Plex’s crackdown on free remote streaming access starts this week - Ars Technica (arstechnica.com)

submitted 1 week ago by otters_raft@lemmy.ca to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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Plex is starting to enforce its new rules, which prevent users from remotely accessing a personal media server without a subscription fee.

If anyone needs it: https://jellyfin.org/

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[–] ShortN0te@lemmy.ml 15 points 1 week ago (2 children)

If it becomes an issue, then you're in the exact same position you'd be in today if you decided to move away from Plex now.

I disagree. Right now you got time to do the research, plan the move and test it out with a demo setup. You do not know if you got the time if Plex decides to screw their lifetime users.

Yes this is hypothetical.

[–] moseschrute@lemmy.world 13 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The steaks are very high. I could lose access to my media library for 1-2 evenings (the time it would take me to switch to Jellyfin).

[–] lando55@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Plex are trying to start a beef

[–] kalpol@lemmy.ca 1 points 6 days ago

Locking horns with users

[+] Kushan@lemmy.world -8 points 1 week ago (2 children)

It's entirely hypothetical. Jellyfin could also close source tomorrow, hypothetically (It happened with Emby so there's precedent).

[–] festus@lemmy.ca 18 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Jellyfin can't go closed source as it's a fork of Emby from before it was closed source, licensed under the GPL. They don't own that code so they can't change that license, thus the whole project is GPL. In addition, Jellyfin isn't being developed by just one company (it's all volunteers), so every new contribution is also GPL licensed, owned by each contributor. The only way Jellyfin could go closed source would be to cut out the Emby backend and for every single contributor ever to agree to change the license, or have their code cut out. In short it's not happening, and if somehow it did the project would just get forked regardless for everyone to switch to (the community did it once already!).

[–] ShortN0te@lemmy.ml 10 points 1 week ago

No, you have not understood anything. Assuming Jellyfin would go closed source, (ignoring the GPL license and so on) you would not notice anything. Your server and service would be unchanged by this.

Emby is the best example, the community will fork it and you server lives on. Even if not, then the server and software is still yours.