- cross-posted to:
- technology@lemmy.world
- piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com
- cross-posted to:
- technology@lemmy.world
- piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com
We are also changing how remote playback works for streaming personal media (that is, playback when not on the same local network as the server). The reality is that we need more resources to continue putting forth the best personal media experience, and as a result, we will no longer offer remote playback as a free feature. This—alongside the new Plex Pass pricing—will help provide those resources. This change will apply to the future release of our new Plex experience for mobile and other platforms.
https://emby.media/
FUCK Emby! What they did was worse than what Plex is doing even now
Another user said that was because users were modifying the code to avoid supporting the project? I got a lifetime subscription relatively inexpensive and haven’t had trouble
Who said that? I did a search in the thread and no Ody said anything about that that I saw
So the issue is kind of similar to bitwarden; how to protect the premium bits when having an open source core?
They just didn’t handle it as gracefully.
https://www.theregister.com/2024/11/04/bitwarden_gpls_password_manager/
Here’s the history regarding emby if you’re curious:
https://github.com/nvllsvm/emby-unlocked
https://web.archive.org/web/20190327090553/https://emby.media/community/index.php?/topic/49862-source-code-license/#entry483544
https://web.archive.org/web/20181225073326/https://github.com/MediaBrowser/Emby/issues/3075#issuecomment-408600161
What did they do?
Basically, slammed the source code door shut after making promissory statements like “Don’t worry, we’ll always be open source” for years. With little/no notice they relicensed everything and pivoted to a closed source paywall model.
No discussion with the community or contributors, no alternatives explored, no polls or surveys. Just woke up one day to a “Sorry, but we’re going closed source because moneyyyy” blog post
Jellyfin was born right after, forked out of vengeance.
In retrospect we should have seen it coming when they would do odd little things, like keeping the build scripts closed source n crap, but eh hindsight and all that lol
They too put a whole lot behind their subscription though
https://emby.media/support/articles/Premiere-Feature-Matrix.html
I bought a lifetime sub, now I don’t have to pay anything