Figured I would share this latest article from The Verge calling out Plex…https://www.theverge.com/2019/7/23/20697751/piracy-plex-netflix-hulu-streaming-wars
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Ouch!
- What Plex doesn’t say, however, is how that bliss is achieved. Because what’s on Plex servers is populated by people, most of the commercial content you’d find there is probably pirated. And this is the main tension of using Plex: while the software itself is explicitly legal, the media that populates its customer-run servers is not — at least the stuff protected by copyright law
There is really nothing new or anything basically untrue it that article. It is slanted to show Plex in a bad light but that really does not require much slanting, just a bit of a tilt.
Of course anything that streams you local media could be placed in that same bad light as the “problems” that are highlighted are mostly with the ways of acquiring media not playing it.
Of course there is the practice of remote sharing that can be construed to be illegal under some interpretations of at least US law.
As with 95% ( maybe more) of today’s news reporting the purpose of the piece is not to inform but rather to generate income and make people think in some desired way.
There is no longer any “news” source that is not biased and this is no exception.
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I agree with you here and feel Plex will always get hit hard because it’s ability to download metadata to commercially own media, especially with said media that’s not physically or digitally out for sale.
EDIT: LOL!! What a difference what one word left out makes.
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Did the check Plex sent to them to write a good article bounce?
Guys, I think it’s a bit odd to claim that any serious % of Plex users are ripping their own content. Plex isn’t used soley for pirated media but it’s a massive part of it. This article also covers Plex the way a huge amount of people use it, in that they don’t have a server at all but a friend does. That friend is not getting the latest TV shows by blu-ray rip.
The other day, that friend was upgrading his digital storage, which he uses to keep everything organized on the Plex server. We all pitched in a little to defray the cost, but it was also to recognize the value of what he’d done for us. Streaming from someone’s library feels categorically different than watching the same thing on Netflix. What I mean to say is that each Plex server is special because it’s made for people.
This article isn’t a feature review, it’s talking about the experience people have with the product (which is positive!)
I liked the part where they basically said that being a part of someone Plex server is like joining a Fight Club.
1st rule of F̶̶i̶̶g̶̶h̶̶t̶ Plex Club, Dont talk about F̶̶i̶̶g̶̶h̶̶t̶ Plex Club.
2nd rule of F̶̶i̶̶g̶̶h̶̶t̶ Plex Club, Dont talk about F̶̶i̶̶g̶̶h̶̶t̶ Plex Club.
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Maybe 30 years ago but certainly not today. It’s downloading!!!
I think people kind of assume the majority of people use it for the same purpose as them.
For the most part, I use it for DVR/saved recordings and for ripped DVD’s, Blu-Rays and CD’s. I assume the majority of people (aka over 50%) do it for the same reason as me. Not that it’s necessarily true. It’s just human nature to project a bit.
Plex would understandably never give out any real numbers about it, of course.
I said this becuase I spend a good amount of time on the forums here and you notice a theme after a while. Most questions on metadata and whatnot are not related to ripping physical media and the plex subreddit is largely the same.
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