Plex Will Start Cracking Down on Free Remote Streaming Access This Week
News Source : Wired
News Summary
- Plex is starting to enforce its new rules, which prevent users from remotely accessing a personal media server without a subscription fee.
- Under the new rules announced in March, a server owner needs to have a Plex Pass subscription, which starts at $7 per month.
- The changes are rolling out this week, with a subscription being required for people using Plex’s Roku OS app for remote access.
- This requirement change will come to all other Plex TV apps (Fire TV, Apple TV, Android TV, etc.)
- and any third-party clients using the API to offer remote streaming in 2026.
Plex is starting to enforce its new rules, which prevent users from remotely accessing a personal media server without a subscription fee.Previously, people outside of a server owners network could [+2793 chars]
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