The Service That Lets You Build Your Own Streaming Library Just Announced a Wild Price Increase
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The price of Lifetime Plex Pass plans will be increasing to $749.99 on July 1.

Plex has announced a massive price increase on the service’s Lifetime Plex Pass. On July 1, the lifetime subscription option will go from $249.99 to $749.99, an increase of 200%. The price hike will only apply to new subscribers, with no changes to monthly or annual subscription pricing.

  • LincolnsDogFido@lemmy.zipEnglish
    2·
    1 day ago

    How is Plex significantly better than Jellyfin at those things? I can just create a user in 2 seconds on the admin dashboard for Jellyfin, set a temporary password and my friend can log in and change it to whatever they want.

    I can even limit the streaming bitrate to the account if I need to avoid bandwidth issues.

    • FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.auEnglish
      3·
      1 day ago

      Unless your user comes and logs in on your network, and only streams when they’re at your house, then you’ve just opened your server to the world.

      Plex has bandwidth controls.

        • FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.auEnglish
          3·
          1 day ago

          No they’re not. No one is connecting their tv to Tailscale, especially not your parents or grand parents, and ip whitelisting is still dangerous and insecure on networks you don’t control.

          • LincolnsDogFido@lemmy.zipEnglish
            1·
            1 day ago

            Tailscale has native clients for all the major TV OS’. And I’m not whitelisting public networks for my friends’ convenience. If they’re traveling, they use tailscale with their mobile device or not at all. If you’re talking about IP spoofing that’s not a realistic vulnerability concern for a home media server.

            At least I know the potential attack vectors for my Jellyfin server and can mitigate potential security concerns.

    • keyez@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      1 day ago

      They mentioned remote streaming which jellyfin doesn’t have a secure way to do by itself

      • JustEnoughDucks@slrpnk.netEnglish
        1·
        16 hours ago

        Does Plex? Have they ever been security audited or are we just taking the word of closed source software because they make it easier? Like Microsoft who just got caught adding backdoors into billions of computers and (pick one) closed source software company who has had major security breaches in the last decade.