Adding extra tiers that only the people who already bought a Plex pass would buy? If you run a Plex server and haven’t got a Plex pass by now, you were never going to unless they did what they’re doing now, as it’s basically feature complete.
You don’t really seem to understand that businesses need revenue and profit to survive, publicly traded or private. You’d rather see Plex die than have their most hardcore users have to pay a tiny fee?
I really don’t give a shit if a corporation needs more revenue to satisfy their infinite growthTM.
Oh so they don't deserve to be paid for their work, the only reason they'd be after money is for "infinite growthTM"?
What’s not fine is taking something away people used to get for free
I agree that's never good, but what's the alternative? Go out of business? Insert ads into your streaming of local content? Another way rip look at it is that they’ve been giving away their product for free due the last 10+ years that they should have been charging for.
I mention JellyFin because at some stage it will become a business and they'll start charging too, or it will get left behind because it's free. People can fork all they want, but businesses that provide services can't do so for free for eternity.
Is there even anyone that runs a plex server who doesn't have a lifetime plex pass these days? I’ve had one for 10+ years at this stage. I bought it to support the devs as they made this amazing software that I’ve used for probably hundreds of thousands of hours of streaming from my server. I paid like $100. I pay less than that much in 1 month to my ISP.
IMO it’s a fair change, because the product has always been worthy of being a paid product.
People are free to go elsewhere, but they’ll quickly realize that the one off plex pass price is cheap for what you get.
But your "evidence" isn't indicative of all "right-wingers". It's some small study of "homophobes". Many on the left are homophobes, seemingly more and more these days as "trans rights" and gay rights don't mix very well.
https://quillette.com/2019/01/31/homophobia-and-the-modern-trans-movement/
Nah. How would you get Uncle Bob to use tailscale on his PS5 to watch Jellyfin, for example?
"Shitty move by a corporation"? You mean requiring the person that's using their flagship all encompassing flagship software product to pay a one off fee? A one off fee that seemingly most people who host a Plex server already bought?
Software costs money to make and maintain. You're not entitled to it for free. Plex's software is legitimately great and is the only software on the market that does what it does and makes it as easy as it is.
and evidently has no costs associated to the corp
As has been pointed out many times in here, this is wrong. Plex have hardware that is used when many, probably most, people stream remotely. Also developers cost money to employ. Developers make the software that is regularly updated. They deserve to be paid, don't they?
It is pretty damn obvious how this will continue.
So you agree the same thing will happen to JellyFin then, right? So why even bother getting Jellyfin set up now when it will inevitably happen there too?
No Jellyfin app on AppleTV or PS5.
Insert virus on your server.
My next NAS might not be by Synology due to their recent announcement about supported hard drives,
Just on this - this was widely misrepresented just like this plex announcement is. Just so you are aware of the actual truth - the new + Synology NAS's do not require Synology branded drives. They will still accept and work with all drives including WD, Iron Wolf, Seagate, etc.
All that is changing is that only the Synology branded drives will get some of the "smart health" monitoring features and easy firmware updating (of the hdd). Nothing else is changing. You will still be able to buy all of the new Synology devices and plug in whatever HDDs you want and they'll work fine.
What was the bribery?