Well hey, enjoy Amazon drive, there’s only one way to find out. If that privacy info didn’t dissuade you then good luck. Even if they have or have not done it, there’s a clause in there stating they “can” and when the eventuality occurs where politics change a law and Amazon can get paid for turning in users, prepare for open season.
@wvanderspek said:
i am curious because i want to know what amazon can see, it isn’t legal stuff what i will be uploading if a used this cloud functionality.
No it’s not true unlimited but it gives you really decent 100TB. which is A LOT .
@carloslozada said:
@wvanderspek said:
i am curious because i want to know what amazon can see, it isn’t legal stuff what i will be uploading if a used this cloud functionality.No it’s not true unlimited but it gives you really decent 100TB. which is A LOT .
Sorry but this is misinformation. There are screenshots elsewhere on these forums showing over 200TB stored
@carloslozada said:
@wvanderspek said:
i am curious because i want to know what amazon can see, it isn’t legal stuff what i will be uploading if a used this cloud functionality.No it’s not true unlimited but it gives you really decent 100TB. which is A LOT .
That’s just a set # it shows for storage size purposes. Google Drive does the same thing, once you reach the amount it shows, it raises to a new number.
If people are using it to store over 100TB of information for $60 a year I can see why all those startups go bankrupt or change their model.
@Canepohl said:
I keep looking around and it seems Amazon scans your content. People have had their account disabled for copyrighted material… I say this 8TBs in to my upload. I wish plex had come up with a way to encrypt your content, and have the plex media server have the key.
It is a great way for Amazone to save space, if lets say 2 users upload same movie they have aquired from a not to be mentioned channel, their MD5/SHA1 hash matches thus Amazone only needs to save the file one time.
@“Master King” said:
Very ready to test new amazon cloud setup i currently have 20TB in my amazon drive
I’m ready as well! I’ve had all my media on Amazon Cloud Drive for nearly a year now. I’m not wearing my tinfoil hat, so beam me up to the cloud!
@a7medo778 said:
call me curios…isamazon “unlimited” is truly unlimited ?
i can see that some users will easily abuse it dumping torrent’ed movie rips on their driveshow safe is it actually to use amazon drive
I currently use torrents just delete all text files and rename your files before you upload i did not do this and amazon made it so i could not sharefiles anymore they will not suspend your account ! I do not need to share files i just use NetDrive2 for my drive on plex! also you can use a open source program called ACD dokany GitHub - Rambalac/ACDDokanNet: Dokan.NET based driver for Amazon Cloud Drive
Hope this helps guys!
@carloslozada said:
@wvanderspek said:
i am curious because i want to know what amazon can see, it isn’t legal stuff what i will be uploading if a used this cloud functionality.No it’s not true unlimited but it gives you really decent 100TB. which is A LOT .
Carlos you are wrong they give you a 100TB instant data limit meaning your cannot use more than 100TB of streaming or accessing files at once still like you say 100TB data leap is huge! They will let you store unlimited you are just limited 100TB accessing files thru the amazon.com api.
If you have any idea netflix does not use 100TB a second! impossible unless you have the fastest internet speed witch is 10GBPS and still not possible
@“Master King” said:
EXAMPLE ONE : AMAZON IS FRIENDLY TO TORRENTS I USE THEIR AWS CONSOLE FOR A SERVER HERE ARE MY SPECS
Damn son, how much are you paying per month?!
@Fluffernuttr said:
@“Master King” said:
EXAMPLE ONE : AMAZON IS FRIENDLY TO TORRENTS I USE THEIR AWS CONSOLE FOR A SERVER HERE ARE MY SPECSDamn son, how much are you paying per month?!
Its around 1-2$ an hour! But i work for amazon so i get discounts!
its expensive because i have 64 Cores and 256GB of ram i use the ram for a IM Disk drive thats why its using 91% of my ram
well i think this is a service (plex cloud) that i have to try, but i am a little bit skeptical about the amazon side of it. Because my data isn’t completely legal, what will they do with it.
_3.3 Our Use of Your Files to Provide the Service. We may use, access, and retain Your Files in order to provide the Service to you and enforce the terms of the Agreement, and you give us all permissions we need to do so. These permissions include, for example, the rights to copy Your Files for backup purposes, modify Your Files to enable access in different formats, use information about Your Files to organize them on your behalf, and access Your Files to provide technical support. Amazon respects your privacy and Your Files are subject to the Amazon.com Privacy Notice located at www.amazon.com/privacy.
You are solely responsible for Your Files and for complying with all applicable copyright and other laws, including import and export control laws and regulations, and with the terms of any licenses or agreements to which you are bound_
This is what I ‘know’ so far:
- Curent Amazon Cloud users who were sharing ‘non legal’ material got a message that their sharing priviliges got revoked.
- Plex will not implement any form for reading encrypted files
- Plex will not ‘babysit’ their users.
My guess is that -IF- you have some ‘non legal’ material and just use it for your private use (or maybe also close friends / family) you’ll be fine. If you are openly advertising your Plex server to the public, your account might get investigated (probably not by Plex but by Amazon on behalf of an Authority) meaning that they might disable certain functions, might disable your account, ask for a cease-and-desist, or even fine you. We don’t know 
There is absolutely no proof that Amazon Cloud users have had there sharing or any other functionality disabled. The users that are generally reported for that are, it seems, Amazon s3 users which is a different service.
Even if the reported users are Cloud users the numbers are very small and they do not seem to be users that had their data scanned but rather they “shared” copyrighted files using Amazon’s sharing functionality which Plex Cloud does not use.
So the first point should read a FEW Amazon Cloud users who were sharing ‘non legal’ material got a message that their sharing privileges got revoked. And that has no impact on Plex users at all.
The other two points are true but are also very reasonable and just good business practices from Plex.
I do not believe Amazon will ever scan user’s files unless they receive a specific complaint.
Having said that I am currently testing Plex Cloud and I am quite unsure that it will be a viable system for most users although those with very fast upload and download may find it to be good.
We must remember it is in early beta and it could easily improve over time but the upload speed, in particular, will always remain an impediment to getting libraries onto Amazon, or just about any other, cloud storage system.
@Elijah_Baley said:
There is absolutely no proof that Amazon Cloud users have had there sharing or any other functionality disabled. The users that are generally reported for that are, it seems, Amazon s3 users which is a different service.Even if the reported users are Cloud users the numbers are very small and they do not seem to be users that had their data scanned but rather they “shared” copyrighted files using Amazon’s sharing functionality which Plex Cloud does not use.
So the first point should read a FEW Amazon Cloud users who were sharing ‘non legal’ material got a message that their sharing privileges got revoked. And that has no impact on Plex users at all.
The other two points are true but are also very reasonable and just good business practices from Plex.
I do not believe Amazon will ever scan user’s files unless they receive a specific complaint.
Having said that I am currently testing Plex Cloud and I am quite unsure that it will be a viable system for most users although those with very fast upload and download may find it to be good.
We must remember it is in early beta and it could easily improve over time but the upload speed, in particular, will always remain an impediment to getting libraries onto Amazon, or just about any other, cloud storage system.
I am hoping that they allow Local plex data to be stored on the cloud because it takes up allot of space if you have allot of files!
From what I’ve been reading, all of the Plex data is in the cloud…at least for the cloud server. You could theoretically push all of your media into the cloud and shut down your server and it will still work just fine. Of course the cloud server doesn’t have all the features of the local server yet.
