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Ooops, Plex just banned the server provider you were using, guess you'll have to migrate it all at the drop of a hat.
You should never use bad examples. It just makes your comment look stupid.
Without an explanation, this comment looks more stupid. Why is their example bad?
What kind of moron isn't hosting his own plex server?
The kind that did a cost analysis of buying their own hardware and running costs vs the cost of a VPS. Or the kind that doesn't have good uplink bandwidth and wants to share with family and friends.
You would have to be a fucking moron of the highest order to upload tons of illegal content to a cloud based server.
As opposed to keeping it at home? 🙂 How is it any worse? If anything it can be better, there are some VPS services that attempt to preserve your privacy to some extent.
Have you heard of Plex literally banning Hetzner, a server provider?
Yeah and it was banned for being heavily used by awful criminals. Probably not a big deal to switch hosts even if you didn't self host for some reason
Apparently I have to be more clear. What kind of moron is using a cloud based server for their
illegal
Movie collection?
You can have a perfectly legal collection, not give anyone else access and still be affected just because you use a particular host provider.
I would love to meet this unicorn.
server provider? what do you mean, they can ban my nas?
Nope, but they did make it so I get suggested streaming providers before my own bloody media. That’s why I switched to Jellyfin early this year. It’s rough around the edges but it’s functional.
Also, if you think this take is edgy, you clearly didn’t read the article. They literally brought up this exact thing coming up on social media. They’re actively making a call for developers to help.
You can disable this entirely.
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I tried jellyfin before I decided to buy the Plex lifetime pass and it just flat out would not boot. The docker container kept failing and I tried various things to troubleshoot. Made me sad but I felt like it was time to finally commit to Plex after using it for like 8 years...
Some people host their plex on a VPS (basically your portion of a server on a cloud that you can do whatever with) server and Plex recently banned a really popular one suddenly.
Wait, do you store your plex media in the cloud? I didn't even know that was an option...
That was my reaction too. People do but I'm not sure I understand. One thing, you could be much more easily on the hook for any copyright issue even if accidental. Also you're paying for a new service. I'd rather just occasionally do some local maintenance and pay the $2 a month extra to keep my machine running which I'd likely do anyhow.
Some people store their plex on a vps server, and plex recently banned the cheapest super popular one because some people were selling access to Plex servers on that host.
It's a very attractive option if all you want to host is Plex. What the average self-hoster pays for hardware + electrical would buy a lot of VPS time. It's also money that's spread over a longer period of time vs a large upfront cost.
Yeah too bad that I was on a host heavily associated with CSAM /s