@MeatChunks said:
Plex is following the Facebook business model. I feel a Plex testimony on capitol hill coming…(not really).
Why not change your business model to a monthly subscription? It’s appears to me that Emby will win in the end because they have recurring revenue and can forecast a budget appropriately (and don’t have to take on investors for a free service).
Maybe I’m the only one, but paying a few $ a month, even though I already have a lifetime pass, wouldn’t bother me if it meant all these privacy concerns would go away. I like companies with good business models and revenue streams. Not ones that bank on their customers to give up data haha.
Plex has bugged me so much in the last year that I will never ever pay them any money any more!!!
After all those privacy issues and annoying, unfixed bugs, I’d rather pay Emby double, than waste another dime on Plex.
Um, guys, you know that’s a part of pretty much every set of terms for all products that you use media with too right? It’s pretty standard, and kind of required in this case. Without that license the basic function of plex technically violates your copyright (which they presume you have, to avoid, let’s say “other” issues). Seriously, it’s even in adobe products now because of the way that CC operates. Do you use Apple services (iOS or MacOS)? It’s there too. Google/Android? Yep. Windows? Uh huh. Linux? In general, no (score one for gpl cancer and its quirks), but any component that has non-gpl quarantined code may (hi Emby).
@Elijah_Baley it’s in emby’s terms as well, keep in mind that “Website” (capital W) is the collective term for all services and software used in their document (like “Plex Solution” is here), and they list “other data” under user content referring to the “Website” (which again is their umbrella term for all web/services/software collectively). Whether intentional or not, it’s included, and in a far more broad way (and sneaky, albeit probably unintentionally) than described under plex’s.
Though as the Server component is gpl afflicted, if you use the server only and never interact with any other service/software/app/website provided by Emby, that specific term shouldn’t apply to you due to gpl quirks with ownership/licensing.
Isn’t our broken copyright system fun? … Shoot me…
Based on some of the feedback here we’ve gone back to our lawyers and worked with them on an updated version of paragraph 6 of the new Terms of Service that should describe our original intentions better. The new version explicitly states that we can only use this data to enable you to use the Plex service. We have similar language in our current Terms of Service and this was unintentionally removed in the version that was published yesterday.
