No, its more like we’ve found criminals in your neighborhood and we are quarantining off this neighborhood so you cant live here any more. You have a month to get your stuff out before we banish you.
Everyone isn’t being hauled off for criminal proceedings. Get a grip.
All the vitriol here makes one wonder how many of these comments are from those users who were the targets of this action by plex.
You can bet they ain’t here, why would they be? They will all be in the process of moving off somewhere else right now. Leaving us forever banned. While they deal with a minor inconvenience.
To you it’s a shame that “normal users with 5-10 friends”… But if you read the original ToS this is violating their terms.
Which is REALLY a shame is that I use it ONLY for me and my strict family.
If sharing libraries violates their TOS do not support that feature
I have no plans to leave Plex but I just pulled the latest jellyfin docker image to see what’s up.
They are too busy setting up proxies to be crying on the support forums. I see a lot of legitimate users who are rightfully upset at the change.
Please share the document where these terms are spelled out. This snippet from the current terms of service, and marketing copy describing the library sharing functionality, support the idea that the feature is intended to allow you to share with friends and family.
True - if that wasn’t the intention, why have managed accounts? You just need one account and Plex Home if it’s only meant to be used by the same household.
This read to me that it’s alright when sharing the media you create yourself. AKA home videos and pictures but it’s not alright by any means to share pirated content or even ripped discs you own.
Could be wrong.
If that was the case, why do they offer media agents specifically targeted at copyrighted content? They imply they are targeting resellers, but they are not. They are targeting everyone that doesn’t have a decent upload speed from their ISP!
Why is it not a minor inconvenience for you? I would imagine they have TBs more material to worry about than you do. So, if they aren’t savvy like everyone believes they are they will be doing a lot more work than we will.
Because one who bought the media on disc can rip them for backup and watch themselves. Legally.
They could be here to get people worked up. No different than the Jellyfin apostles who haven’t used Plex for a while but love to dogpile on Plex when they screw up.
From my understanding Plex is blocking Hetzner from talking with the Plex ecosystem. So if one were to tunnel that specific communication thru another host it would bypass this while still hosting on Hetzner.
Now the “Custom server access URLs” feature can still be utilized to advertize the Hetzner IP to the clients. The clients talk directly with the server so the block would have no effect in this case.
Doing it this way will allow the server to still talk with Plex for auth etc and allow the clients to still directly connect to the server without going thru that tunnel… thus avoiding any bandwidth/routing constraints that may show up by using a tunnel on another host and unless Plex has plans to ban Hetzner IPs in the “Custom server access URLs” feature their solution will do nothing.
This is one single way to work around this dumb pointless ban. Need more scenarios? Plex can pay me money for consulting.
Tell me, how are those boots tasting? Keep simping and soon enough it’ll be your turn on corpo daddys wild ride.
OK troll. So you believe in people being evicted from their home in their neighborhood rather than flushing out the thieves and scoundrels. That’s extremely logical. And to get the record straight, I host at home but I have enough common sense to understand the stupidity in this blanket ban on a legitimate hosting service.
One word: wrong. I am a self-respecting home user. In fact, I give permission to a Plex employee to independently verify such. They will see my IP address corresponds to a Comcast home service shared IP. But you do you and continue trying to spread your reality distortion field of lies and deceit against people who are defending a stupid move. We’ll be laughing at your tomfoolery in the corner.
I was trying to correct his analogy. Also, I don’t think this was a great idea either. Much better to limit the amount of accounts you can share your server with.
Hey newbie, you got me! Good eye there captain. Much like every other corporate entity. If they hose me I will move on. Sorry you feel so butt-hurt by my comments. In the end its just entertainment files. I can always go outside and enjoy life.
