Thinking Out Loud here and I know this is going to receive a lot of criticism but with Plex’s current legal issues wouldn’t it be best to just end the friend sharing option on Plex. Let’s face it, sharing content from your Plex server to others can definitely be legal but who’s really sharing homemade videos? Plex already gives us 15 home users as it is. I just don’t see the point in having the friend sharing option unless you’re doing something shady or you’re inspiring to be a movie director! Harsh comments start now!!
You mean the legal issues Plex doesn’t have?
Plex has a team of lawyers
They have isolated Plex from legal issues - therefore there aren’t any.
Plex IS Sharing - No Sharing, No Plex.
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Hope you’re right! Plex is technically a digital sorting Library software with live tv integration. Plus VOD ad supported;)
I don’t think they should end it.
In some countries like Switzerland it is allowed to share music and videos with family members and close friends.
We pay for each hdd or Flash storage a small fee per GB. This is used to compensate the artists for financial damage they suffer from pirating their content.
But I agree that sharing with 100 persons is way too much. I think a total of 30 Users (15 friends and 15 home users) would be enough. Most servers can’t handle high streaming charge anyway.
BTW: with Netlfx you can stream up to 4 devices at the same time and most peoples don’t complain about it. But some Plex users have more than 100 friends, streaming all the time and complaining about reaching out there friends limit all the time. 
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That’s pretty cool, I didn’t know that about Switzerlands laws.
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We have that fee in Germany too, still it is illegal to share anything with anybody, as well as breaking a copy protection. Switzerland is probably special in this regard.
Please provide a link or reference identifying any legal issues, assuming any exist.
I did not find any of note in a quick google search.
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But not a legal issue (yet) as it seems. But might become one.
IANAL but here is the law text of the Swiss government:
https://www.admin.ch/opc/en/classified-compilation/19920251/index.html#id-2-ni5
There aren’t any.
I suspect somewhere in that wall of text we didn’t read before we signed it - all legal issues are the responsibility of The User, not Plex.
As far as Plex is concerned - it’s Bulletproof - otherwise MGM/Lionsgate wouldn’t be moving in their furniture.
Anyone feeling queezy should just pack up and leave.
Or
Not worry about it.
(I’m going for option 2)
Creative So-and-Sos is hoping… but apparently they haven’t read the fine print in that User Agreement either.
(it’s likely the only guys that have read it - wrote it)
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Nothing is bullet proof. Usenet providers also do not upload the content but still they have to delete the content when found, in that case apply automatic filters so that nothing can be found.
They were rules to be responsible to what is provider over their service.
The same would apply to Plex.
No it does not. Plex does not maintain the data, usenet does which makes usernet responsible. The only one responsible for plex movie copy right infractions are the people who own the movie storage and plex account.
Usenet does not delete content from your pc
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Well, if there’s a work-around - it’s enabled - and if there’s a loophole that doesn’t work in Plex favor - it’ll soon be closed.
Nobody from Plex is going to The Grey Bar Hotel anytime soon.
Sharing will continue - 'cause that’s where all those eyeballs watching the ads in Movies and TV come from.
I don’t care and nobody will delete anything from your computer.
I was just saying I was not surprised that IF there would be a law suit, the argument that sharing with 100 people is friends and family would not hold.
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