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by teilo 3392 days ago
Because you would have to give your 1000 friends the Plex login to your paid Plex account, and this would likely be noticed and your account suspended.
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I don't think that's necessary. They can all have their own logins. Plex allows coarse sharing for free and more fine grained sharing in their paid product.
That's not how Plex works. A library can be shared with any number of users that you invite into your account.