email from plex (2 days after the stated date that it's supposed to start) 
they're requiring users to purchase remote viewing subscriptions to watch their friends content lol. plex has been going down the shitter for a while but this is next level fuckery

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jellyfin, i forgot to mention that. it's not better but afik it open source and free. it's definitely not as polished

Is anyone competing with a better product yet??

Wonder if it can be bypassed by setting up a VPN that treats the playback as local playback. 

Obviously doesn't help with things like Chromecast, but...