Eh. I think this is going to be comparable to netflix blocking account sharing. People lose their minds but… the people being impacted aren’t paying customers.
Plex has increasingly gotten a reputation as “the thing you use to pirate movies”. Was on a date not too long ago where the topic of media libraries came up and I had to explain that my “plex server” is mostly just how I watch my blu rays and not something from “the pirate bay”. If most of the major public/paid shares have to switch to jellyfin or whatever? That is a win for corporate plex.
The alternative is to greatly restrict streaming quality as a client without Plex Pass. Which would suck but… yeah
And, as they increase the focus on providing their own media streaming service as well, this likely has opened them up to a LOT of calls from the studios regarding “So… why is our movie on five hundred pirate plex sites?”
Eh. I think this is going to be comparable to netflix blocking account sharing. People lose their minds but… the people being impacted aren’t paying customers.
Plex has increasingly gotten a reputation as “the thing you use to pirate movies”. Was on a date not too long ago where the topic of media libraries came up and I had to explain that my “plex server” is mostly just how I watch my blu rays and not something from “the pirate bay”. If most of the major public/paid shares have to switch to jellyfin or whatever? That is a win for corporate plex.
The alternative is to greatly restrict streaming quality as a client without Plex Pass. Which would suck but… yeah
And, as they increase the focus on providing their own media streaming service as well, this likely has opened them up to a LOT of calls from the studios regarding “So… why is our movie on five hundred pirate plex sites?”