> Got it. So they want to show the lawyers that they’re doing something to “combat piracy” even though they know it will do absolutely nothing and result in a bunch of pissed off legitimate customers.
What would be a better solution, legitimately? Plex is ripe for lawsuits from media giants in every corner of the world, so even if their software isn’t illegal, they’re always going to have a target on their back and enough lawsuits will bankrupt them anyways.
A service that exists to enable piracy is banning piracy? Good luck :P
This is like when OnlyFans tried to ban porn. Just close up shop then.
I mean let's be honest. Piracy is the raison d'etre for Plex just like porn is for OnlyFans.
Oh, so that's what this email was about.
I have already moved my plex to a home server prior to this, but this anti-consumer bs is just enough of a final push to move over towards the better alternatives.
Good riddance
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What's causing headaches are shared accounts. If plex disabled that feature they'd get rid of people who sell shares on plex instances or maybe just limit the number of shares per server. There is no legitimate use case of a plex server used by 20 accounts. Media companies go after pirates who sell pirated content before caring about users who pirate for themselves who may as well have legitimate content on their servers.
Hosting pirate content in Germany is risky anyway.
I thought it is very common to get "warning letters" from lawyers with 500 eur "fine" for torrenting.
What is Plex, can someone explain what it is and how it works? I tried to figure it out from their website but didn't find much information on those topics. I don't have an account there, didn't have to sign in, just clicked on free movies and was able to stream a great movie in my browser entirely for free. Like, what?
It's unfortunate, but I imagine Plex is often on the precipice of being litigated out of existence (whether or not said litigation is actually valid).
it sucks because Jellyfin really should be replacing Plex, but they just don't have the client experience ready to go yet. The Samsung TV client has been languishing in a github repo for years, the Android client is quite crashy and difficult, and the web interface leaves much to be desired as well. But a couple of ex Plex employees fixing it up and we could be done with this silly Plex stuff.
I'm not against them punishing people who violated the policies, but this doesn't look like a good solution to that problem.
Thats odd, I thought it would've been the other way around. More reason for people to move to Jellyfin/others
It's always amusing watching companies committing suicide.
Who's laughing now Hetzner? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32607728
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The efforts to "go legit" from Plex are entertaining. They're cutting out the piracy like they're going to find something else under there.
"these pirates, who constitute a percentage of our business that rounds to 100, are really getting in the way of our business"