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by therealpygon 35 days ago
I bought a “Lifetime” pass from PlayOn. They literally just renamed the product (all the old naming is still permeated through the code) and then said the license was no longer valid, killed the working features by forcing an upgrade to their new product, and suggested I purchase a new subscription instead.

“Lifetime” license is a never again purchase for me, but I hope Plex users fair better.

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This stance seems weird to me. Do you really want to be locked into paying subscriptions for everything and have to rent all your software?

You got burned by a crappy company and we desperately need laws about being made whole when a company shuts down it's servers, but demanding everything be a subscription seems like a bad approach in the mean time.

I appreciate that you believe those to be the only two options I have.