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Why would Plex care about this? What motivates them to implement this ban?
by dave8088 3y ago
Why would Plex care about this? What motivates them to implement this ban?
- tmikaeld 3y agoPotential lawsuits I'd recon.
- donmcronald 3y agoI wonder if their forced login puts them in a position where they’re going to end up doing surveillance and betraying their users that are pirating content.
- upon_drumhead 3y agoPlex has been collecting user data for awhile now. The notice recommends hosting your server at home, tying the consumed media to a specific ip that can be used to tie to a specific person. Honesty, I think Plex is a honeypot and is going to be used to start massive legal suites against people.
- jokowueu 3y agoI doubt that it's a honeypot , they have been slowly banning private plex4shares for a while now this isn't new , they are all moving to other server/clients now
- Dalewyn 3y ago>tying the consumed media to a specific ip that can be used to tie to a specific person. A server in a data center will also have a specific IP tied to a specific person (customer of data center or ISP), assuming the server is supposed to be remotely accessible in a reliable way.
- kuschku 3y agoSome hosters will freely give out the personal data of who owns what, others won't. This would explain why only some hosters are affected and not others.
- npteljes 3y agoHonestly, a change in management could turn it into that. Then suddenly the collected data becomes useful.
- tyrrvk 3y agoI wonder the same thing. It had a lot of 'renegade cool kid' energy early on, I suspect this was done on purpose. However, if you look at the investors, and people working on the project now (lot of industry types) it's moved slowly into the corporate sphere. I think rather than legal assault, they are going to slowly start to boil the frog and users will find themselves in a system that differs radically from what they expected (or want) and by that time moving all their files etc will be too much. I stayed far away, and have supported Kodi the entire time.
- blamazon 3y ago> In 2019, Plex launched an ad-supported streaming service of movies, television shows and music that is accessible from its applications. [1] Advertising, and operating their own streaming service, presumably involves business partnerships with entities that may not look fondly on self-hosting? [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plex_Inc https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plex_Inc.
- urbandw311er 3y agoI think this is closer to the real reason. They’re doing it as part of a charm offensive to partner with content creators.
- Woshiwuja 3y agoI think you got it
- fmajid 3y agoPerhaps they are going to launch their own video service, and this was required of them by the content rights holders