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.

  • SW42@lemmy.worldEnglish
    331·
    1 day ago

    Wait wait wait so… you pay THEM to let YOU share YOUR media? Wha?

    • normis@infosec.pubEnglish
      2·
      2 hours ago

      Not really. What Plex is selling is a relay service, so you can connect to your home media remotely, just like you can do with Tailscale etc. the second thing they are selling is user management, easily share media library with other people. Both of these are hard to set up for many people in Jellyfin

    • Holytimes@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      211·
      1 day ago

      An absolutely insane number of self hosting options require a subscription for now fucking reasoning.

      Not a one time buy which would at least make sense. No no! Its a monthly fee AND half the time they require a Internet connection and checkin. Just to SELF HOST.

      its fucking baffling.

      • AHemlocksLie@lemmy.zipEnglish
        81·
        19 hours ago

        Not a one time buy which would at least make sense. No no! Its a monthly fee AND half the time they require a Internet connection and checkin. Just to SELF HOST.

        Yeah, the DRM has to make sure your subscription is up to date. For the service you provide all the hardware for. The service you will personally have to install and maintain.