This question has arisen. Does the company Plex know what is the content of our servers?
No, it doesn’t and it doesn’t want to know.
The doubt has arisen to me by this news.
Courts Sentence Men for Pirating Thousands of Movies & TV Shows, Including Via Plex
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These are the guys who give out server shares for money.
Giving Plex a bad name. Shall they roast in hell, I say.
They usually have facebook groups where they announce their new items and acquire subscribers. Some have even the audacity to set up genuine websites, offering their “service” more or less openly.
It is very likely that the authorities were tipped off by that kind of acitvity.
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Is there a section in the Plex terms of service where they say they don’t have access?
Please read it yourself. But read it carefully, because when you are playing something from the on-demand libraries (“Movies & TV on Plex”) then of course they know what you are playing. But these passages are not applicable to the content on your own server.
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Thanks 
Grr, I’ve always considered my Plex a private thing, and I only share with one person. I can barely stream to my own devices at 11 Mbps upload speed. Damn people who do this. But the other person in that article was simply sharing, that is alarming- will they come after us for sharing our Plex be it 1 movie or 10,000? Or was it only because of that exorbitant number of movies…
Do you really expect that you will be informed 100% exhaustively and correctly by some web site?
I’m almost willing to bet that there is more to this story than what’s in the article and that this user was not “simply sharing with his friends and family”.
Yes, there is a lot more to this and that article was biased a little bit .Actually, this did not happen recently, it was from a couple of years ago. This is the original story:
The more recent story about DanishBits, refers to the sentencing that the man got. But the original story I linked here, indicates that he was selling access.
But it wasn’t just 10,000 movies, there were also 10,000 episodes of television shows.
This is where the article referred to in here originally wasn’t really complete, because it doesn’t say that this was that same man.
And this also changes the story a little bit, as the original link tells a story that may be deciphered as “we are not safe and that there are people that are breaking into our Plex servers and monitoring what we are doing“, this is not what happened at all.
This was not like what most of us do when we share our libraries with a couple of people and maybe they reciprocate. This wasn’t exactly private. It is also a bit like wire fraud or mail fraud, because he was selling access to it. Grr. That’s just the little detail that should have been included in the original article when referring to that 2019 incident.
Yeah, thank you for nudging me to find out more about this. The article linked in this thread originally leaves out a lot of important things. Also, the source of the link above is torrentfreak, and they will tend to color the facts in their favor I think.
Thanks for the heads up.
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