US EditionPlex’s crackdown on free remote streaming access starts this week
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The Silent Squeeze: Plex’s Relay Crackdown Signals the End of the Free Bandwidth Era
For over a decade, Plex has served as the de facto operating system for the personal media revolution, allowing millions of hobbyists to stream their digital libraries from home servers to remote devices with relative ease. However, the era of unbridled, cost-free connectivity is coming to an abrupt close. As reported by Ars Technica, the company has begun strictly enforcing bandwidth limitations on "Relay" connections—a fallback mechanism used …
New Plex update means you need a pass for remote viewing on your TV
Credit: C. Scott Brown / Android Authority TL;DR Starting this week, the Plex app for Roku will require a Remote Watch Pass or Plex Pass for remote streaming. This requirement will be expanded to other platforms, including Android TV, Fire TV, and Apple TV, by 2026. Server owners can bypass this fee for their users if they subscribe to a Plex Pass themselves. Earlier this year, Plex created a ripple among its fans when it announced a price incr…
More changes are coming to Plex. And the next one is one that no user will like. The reason for it is that, after a previous warning, the company announces that the deactivation of remote streaming has already begun. It is over what was happening. Plex announced months ago that the remote streaming in his program would cease to be free. However, it was a first warning. Initially, it was only blocked after payment on mobile phones. Now the proces…
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