Streaming from the US to the UK via France

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Well this is an odd one.

So I signed up to Amazon Cloud a good while ago, back when it was only available in the US. I happen to be in the UK, so I’m currently (slowly) uploading my media to ACD in preparation for when I’m hopefully invited to try out Plex Cloud (I grabbed Plex Pass again purely for it!)

However, my setup is a little weird. My ACD is hosted in the US, and I have a powerful server provided by OVH sitting in France acting as my plex server, and all my clients will be in the UK.

Does anybody foresee any major problems with this? My connection speed to all three places seem fine (Dedicated 100mbit line in France), but I was more thinking legality and such. I know the US have some weird things in mind when it comes to backing up media, can anybody give me a quick rundown on what I’m allowed and not allowed to do under US law?

Thanks guys, looking forward to playing around with it.

PS. I was one of the original guys who made the crazy acd_cli plex server tutorials, so this is very interesting to me :wink:

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This is not the way Plex Cloud will work. You do not use your own Plex Media Server. Plex will provide the server for you. A regular Plex Media Server cannot read files from ACD. There are 3rd party programs that will allow you to mount ACD as a local drive and PMS will then treat that as a regular drive. However, a regular PMS was not mean to use cloud drives so the performance is not going to be great.

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Oh, interesting! I didn’t realise that was the case, I thought it was connecting remotely. Thanks!