Hah. DLNA is such a perfect example of technology being used for evil capitalist centralized overcomplicated purposes. What a complete train wreck. And then I go and try stuff like PLEX and it is a fuster cluck of epic proportions with the UX from hell and the upsell upsell upsell modal dialogs in the face.

Basically the world of technology follows Sturgeon's Law recursively: 90% of everything is crap, and then 90% of the remaining 10% is also crap, and then 90% of the 10% of the 10% is crap...

(It is really very super extremely depressing to me when I actually think about it or emote about it. I mean, the friendly aliens aren't going to make contact with us when this is how we run a planet. "Dood," they say to each other, "Did you see that iOS app CompanyX put out? What a tub! And how about that media server protocol? Ha ha ha I laughed so hard I just pissed my seven legs! I mean who are the marketing geniuses who came up with that one?!")