2y ago

Plex Will Block Media Servers at Abuse Prevalent Hosting Company | TorrentFreak

Plex Will Block Media Servers at Abuse Prevalent Hosting Company * TorrentFreak

In an email to customers who run Plex servers at the large German hosting company Hetzner, Plex said that access will be blocked next month. It’s not clear if Hetzner is the only hosting company this applies to, but several customers confirmed that they received the same email.

Has anyone here on Lemmy got this notice? Self-hosting is still in the green, but with this precedent who knows what Plex could do later.

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2y ago

Plex Will Block Media Servers at Abuse Prevalent Hosting Company

torrentfreak.com /plex-will-block-media-servers-at-prevalent-hosting-company-230915/

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Dump Plex, they already a lot less free than should be tolerated by self hosters.
- Yeah, Jellyfin is really great. I’m sure there are things that Plex does better, but Jellyfin does everything I’ve asked it to.
  
  Intro skipping? Offline playback? I'd love to ditch Plex, but I use these features regularly.
  
  When Jellyfin has Plexamp, I might consider it
- Sure put I paid for it more then a decade ago. And Jellyfin still has some bugs that are annoying.
In recent years, copyright holders have repeatedly requested Plex to take more action against piracy.
Their preferred method of logging into your own home server by going through their website should really give you pause when reading about how anti-piracy organizations pressure them.
Anonymous Data
In addition to the information described above, Plex collects anonymised data when users interact with our services. This includes:
Server / library data
DVR device information: manufacturer name and model
There have been numerous stories over the years about how anonymized data isn't really anonymous.
There was a thread on plex@lemmy.ml a few days ago with pic of the notice people are receiving.
https://kbin.social/m/plex@lemmy.ml/t/457315/Plex-to-block-all-servers-hosted-at-Hetzner
Surely Plex can come up with a way to accurately identify those that are actually running dodgy paid servers against the TOS and leave the smaller guys alone.
I know the whole idea of the shared library is already pushing laws to the limit but those that are running large scale paid servers will eventaully ruin it for everyone.
- It's always the case of a small group ruining the whole thing for everyone. Identifying and removing big dodgy paid servers would be a good middle ground without punishing the others.
Let's be honest, what Plex offers was too good to be true, and too good to last
Wasn’t it Plex that led to LastPass getting breached?
I mean, why isn’t everyone using open source at this point? Companies are just clamming to suck up as much money as possible from people still stupid enough not to learn from what every other company has done! 🤦‍♂️
- Lifetime passes vs monthly subs. FOSS equivalent product don't exist considering live TV guide, default SSL security, integration with settop media boxes, etc that Plex offers... jellyfin is close but far from the decades of polish and half baked features Plex have added
- It was a very old, unpatched Plex server running on hardware that had access to LastPass critical data.
  If you ran very old FOSS with unpatched vulnerabilities, you'd have the same problem. It wasn't Plex that did it, it was unmaintained self-hosting.
  Plex has it's problems, but this wasn't one of them.

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