>Have you heard about the best new streaming platform on the internet? It’s totally >customizable, works on any device, and, best of all, is basically free.
No its not free. You have to pay a fee for all the features you're talking about.
>What Plex doesn’t say, however, is how that bliss is achieved. Because what’s on Plex servers is populated by people, most of the commercial content you’d find there is probably pirated.
Probably pirated? Does the author have evidence or any proof?
No where does this article mention there are free or cheaper alternatives like Emby, Streama, Kodi etc. Another bad piece of journalism...
There are multitudinous ways to stream video, but the uninformed always make out like this has just been enabled via some breakthrough software like Plex.
You could setup a private server and let your friends stream with VLC for instance.
It annoys me how much inaccurate media coverage apps in this space get. Plex is a media player with a web-based frontend. It's no different than any other media player in essence, and I don't see people attacking Microsoft for supporting piracy through their creation and distribution of Windows Media Player.
For all I've heard, KODI was the platform that harbored the most piracy in terms of user base but that is just as baseless of an assumption that this article makes for Plex.
