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Plex has paywalled my server! (lemmy.giftedmc.com)
submitted 14 hours ago by haui_lemmy@lemmy.giftedmc.com to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
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I tried testing a movie from my home server in plex through firefox and repeatedly got this message, even after reloading.

I knew that they had paywalled the apps on mobile and streaming from outside the network but now they have also blocked watching your own movies through your own hardware.

I do get the point that making software should be able to sustain people but I dont see the move of plex as a fair thing to do. Yes, they have made great software but taking your home server hostage feels like the wrong move.

Even a pop up that says "we need you to donate please" would have been fine. make it pop up before every movie, play donation ads before any movie but straight up disabling the app is kinda cruel.

Anyway, i have switched to jellyfin and it is insanely good. please give it a try. you can run it alongside plex with not issues (at least i had none) and compare the two.

In any case, good luck. Let me know if you need help.

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[–] UxyIVrljPeRl@lemmy.world 13 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Welp, i killed mine yesterday as it wouldnt let me stream while offline. Modem died so no Internet for me. Why do i have everything local if it dosent work while offline...

[–] haui_lemmy@lemmy.giftedmc.com 3 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Exactly. Thats why i use jellyfin now. Try installing it alongside. For me it worked well.

[–] UxyIVrljPeRl@lemmy.world 1 points 48 minutes ago

Its already installed, but missing features, i was waiting for them to finish the db changes, because thats whats blocking them...

[–] grue@lemmy.world 58 points 9 hours ago (7 children)

Every non-Free Software will betray you eventually. It's only a matter of time.

[–] haui_lemmy@lemmy.giftedmc.com 1 points 1 hour ago

A little oversymplified but i'll take it. :)

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[–] FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au 13 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago) (3 children)

Are you saying that you’re on your home network with your Plex server and it won’t let you play your media without paying? That’s not true if so. You must be outside the network.

[–] haui_lemmy@lemmy.giftedmc.com 1 points 1 hour ago

That is exactly the case. It is absolutely true and accusing me of lying is not okay.

[–] JordanZ@lemmy.world 7 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

My guess is they have VLANs and they didn’t set up the server to treat them as local traffic.

[–] Nibodhika@lemmy.world 2 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

I've had that happen to me with plex, it was probably 100% my fault because I specifically changed things during the setup of the docker file, but apparently Plex can't figure out that is local if it's running inside docker with non-host network, it probably only accepts local connections from the docker network, and I was never able to make it treat my actual home network as local.

[–] Zanathos@lemmy.world 1 points 1 minute ago* (last edited 32 seconds ago)

Under Settings > Network there is a configuration item exactly for this. I'm running host network, but you can add the docker networks here as well.

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