If you enjoy streaming your own content via Plex to devices like Roku, Fire TV, Apple TV, or Android TV, some bad news is coming your way: it’s going to start costing money soon.
Back in April 2025, a change came into effect that affected Plex users who remotely accessed the content on their Plex media servers from anywhere. For example, anyone who stored their media content on their home server and wanted to watch it from their second home or while on vacation now had to pay for that remote streaming feature .
Previously, people outside a Plex server owner’s network could also access the server owner’s media library for free. After the April changes, a server owner now needs a Plex Pass subscription—which costs $6.99 per month—to grant outside users remote access to their server. (Alt

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