Wow that sounds like a terrible product no one would want, who is the target audience for such a thing?

Please stop with this false claim torrenting requires port forwading, it doesnt, this has been debunked many times.

Point is you are setting yourself up for disappointment in the future.

Like you see this constant cycle of software becoming wosre as the companies want more and more money and your response is just “yeah but it wont affect my use case so i dont care”

Yeah im sure when it comes to plex, the app based off making pirates into paying customers, it wont fall victim to the same thing.

Gee leopards seem to be getting awful fat lately.

Im talking about all of plexs infrastructure, the hosting for the app, providing tunnels for users without port fwding, maintaining user accounts and usage data, emails… A lot goes into running a service like plex besides just “auth and verification”…and thats not even including the staff required to maintain it and developers to keep all the apps updated.

It will be if you depend on plex for streaming

How mamy months of server costs do you think those lifetime passes cover? If everyone just paid once for a lifetime then plex as a service could no longer function.

Dey took err jerbbs!

kids had to swipe their parents’ credit cards or find a fraudulent number online to access adult content on the web.

Umm no they didnt. Free porn was a thing even in the 90s, and some porn sites used 900 numbers you had to dial into and pay by the minute on your phone bill.

If you dont torrent often you probably arent really needing port forwarding. I use mullvad and i torrent things all the time with zero issues.

All the folks saying “just buy the lifetime pass” gonna be in for a big disappointment in about 5 years