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Re:Facebook Bans Kodi Device Sales by LeoPanthera on Monday August 13, 2018 @08:03PM (#17754601)
Plex relies on a backend server, on your LAN, to work. So you can't sell standalone Plex boxes, or if you did, it would have to include both the server and the client together, and the server requires a reasonably powerful system. A Raspberry Pi wouldn't be good enough.
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Re:Facebook Bans Kodi Device Sales by bubblethink on Monday August 13, 2018 @08:24PM (#17754697)
You can run the server and client on the same box. It's just pointless for that use case, because Kodi can do that better. Plex is useful for transcoding for different clients. Besides, Plex is proprietary and can't be sold without permission. However, the point I was making was that all these things are for watching primarily pirated media, but Plex doesn't have the stigma. Plex was originally a fork of xbmc btw.
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Re:Facebook Bans Kodi Device Sales by Spivak on Monday August 13, 2018 @10:06PM (#17755077)
Plex doesn't have the stigma because you can't use Plex to actually pirate content. You don't really feel a difference between Kodi and it's plugins.
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