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I think part of it is that the efforts are all going to be kind of dodging bullets, in that everyone knows that a popular use case of Plex is for pirated media.
by dotnet00 3y ago
I think part of it is that the efforts are all going to be kind of dodging bullets, in that everyone knows that a popular use case of Plex is for pirated media. So all monetization efforts have to be carefully designed to not risk implicating the project directly into that use case. Which means that monetization efforts mostly lean slightly differently from what the users would want to pay for.
The only monetized features that have decent overlap with user desires are the player features, mobile apps, plexamp and its sonic analysis stuff.
- _heimdall 3y agoI don't quite follow here. Assuming a common use case is personal consumption of pirated content, doesn't it make sense that the monetization strategy focuses on the server/client software itself? More importantly, that monetization strategy is a great fit for legal self-custody. I have a pretty large library of content I bought on DVD and ripped for personal use. I don't share it our as torrents and watch videos locally on my own network, there's nothing wrong with that and I like that Plex is still paid for the software that makes it work well for my use case.
- dotnet00 3y agoI mean, their monetization strategy has lately been more focused on service provider type stuff like advertising and movie streaming, not server/client stuff.