Hi, a couple of the users with whom I’ve shared my Plex library asked if they can donate to me to help support server costs like new hard drives or electricity costs. I wouldn’t dream of charging users for access of course, I would only consider having something that’s clearly optional. I know I could have something like a Tautulli newsletter but I don’t think email spam is nice. I was wondering if it would be within Plex ToS to put a centralised optional donation link within my Plex?
I was thinking of creating an empty movie collection and just putting a kofi link in the collection’s bio. I’d really appreciate knowing if this okay or not, as I’d hate for my lifetime pass to be revoked if it’s against ToS. I tried reading it the ToS but couldn’t find anything clear about it this.
How to differentiate between “optionally asking for a donation” and “asking for a donation or get kicked off” (=making it a paid offer)? I don’t think, Plex will get into that (nor should they… just my 2ct)
Those users took the initiative to contact you. Was it too difficult to just reply directly back to them with your Ko-fi/Paypal or whatever, and just leave Plex out of it?
Wanting to put a link into your server interface so everyone sees it is literally soliciting for money.
Alternative response: There’s nothing stopping you from putting a URL into a collection description.
Thanks for the replies, very good points ! I see how this is indistinguishable from charging a personal fee for the service effectively. I won’t be risking this then, and makes sense why, thanks for explaining it.
General Plex Solution Grant . The Plex Solution is made available by Plex, and this TOS provides to you (identified herein as “you” or a “user” or with “your” (as further described below)) a personal (non-commercial), revocable, limited, non-exclusive, nontransferable, and non-sublicensable license to access and use the Plex Solution (by you and your Authorized Users (as defined below)) conditioned on your continued compliance with this TOS.
It doesn’t matter if you call it “donation” or anything else.
As soon as any form of compensation (monetary or other) is made to you by your users, you are potentially in violation of the license.
