Plex (originally) and Jellyfin are a centralized way of managing your media with aesthetic and easy to use interfaces. I have one Jellyfin server and I have a Netflix/Display+ type interaction with my media. I have the same content on my phone, wife’s phone, my desktop, laptop, my TV, etc.

All watch history, recommendations, up next queue, and so on.

And with the right setup (Wireguard in my case) I can access that content from anywhere.

Three incoherent replies with jumbled run-on sentences.

the businesses with clean perfect sites tend to be the scams

Uhhh, no. Objectively no. A legit website is not going to have spelling mistakes and broken links. Looking professional and thorough is a direct lead to increased business. What you just said is completely false, and frankly idiotic.

Everything else you said (in all three replies) is just a jumbled mess of a brain dump that I’m not even going to try and address any of it.

No, I didn’t say this “isn’t a nice site”. I said it’s “suspicious as hell”.

Having a working site and a navigable “About Us” page isn’t “nice”. It’s the bare minimum I would expect of any legitimate nice or ugly site.

There’s just a lot on their site that reeks of sloppy scammers.

Its so cheap to just get a vps from a littlecreekhosting deal

This site seems suspicious as hell. Incredibly basic site, no info on where they’re located, and the “About Us” links aren’t even links. There’s no About Us page.

Ok, so you’re implying people were using their videos for free instead of paying for the streaming services. Then Plex wanted more money so they’ve started to charge people for using their own stuff.

That’s fine, and frankly I agree with that.

But your initial reply to me is still irrelevant to the discussion.

It’s irrelevant because even Plex themselves made no mention of their in-house streaming stuff. The discussion is about being charged to view your videos, hosted on your own self-hosted server, viewed on your own device.

But the blog post from Plex was specifically talking about charging for remotely accessing your own files. So your point is irrelevant to the discussion.

Streaming requires high-performance, high-bandwidth machines that cost anywhere from several dozen dollars to several hundred dollars a month. You build a resilient high-availability network, and you could easily be looking at several tens of thousands of dollars a month.

Are you under the impression that Plex uploads the movie files to their servers and then transcodes them there, or something?

And the hard work happens on your own hardware. All Plex’s servers are doing is acting as a signaling server, but no media or routed through Plex’s servers.