So many inaccuracies in this.... The first paragraph is wrong and I keep reading and there are many more issues and assumptions made without any facts or evidence.

>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...

An article by someone late to the party targeted at people who don't know what a "party" is.

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.

I ripped my entire catalog of CDs accumulated throughout the 90s-2000s into digital format and threw that collection into Plex so I can listen to my own personal (paid for!) music library remotely. I also took digital download codes for recent Blu-Ray purchases and stored those in Plex so I can watch lower-quality versions of the movies I paid for.

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.