Plex Will Block Media Servers at Abuse Prevalent Hosting Company * TorrentFreak
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Plex has informed users that it will no longer allow servers to be run at a hosting provider where lots of TOS violations occur.

In an email to customers who run Plex servers at the large German hosting company Hetzner, Plex said that access will be blocked next month. It’s not clear if Hetzner is the only hosting company this applies to, but several customers confirmed that they received the same email.

Has anyone here on Lemmy got this notice? Self-hosting is still in the green, but with this precedent who knows what Plex could do later.

    • M500@lemmy.mlEnglish
      132·
      2 years ago

      Yeah, Jellyfin is really great. I’m sure there are things that Plex does better, but Jellyfin does everything I’ve asked it to.

      • ramjambamalam@lemmy.caEnglish
        19·
        2 years ago

        Intro skipping? Offline playback? I’d love to ditch Plex, but I use these features regularly.

        • nathris@lemmy.caEnglish
          101·
          2 years ago

          My favourite Jellyfin feature is the one where it doesn’t ‘accidentally’ reset my dashboard every few weeks to promote its garbage free streaming partners. I don’t think I could give that feature up.

        • M500@lemmy.mlEnglish
          4·
          2 years ago

          I’d like intro skipping. But none of these features are enough for me to switch from jellyfin. Luckily, sending the files to vlc is easy enough for offline playback.

          • God's hairiest twink@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
            1·
            2 years ago

            There’s always this plugin. Its a little annoying to get the skip button working but you can just set it to make a chapter marker so you can skip with that. Though be warned it will hog resources until its done scanning everything on the first run

        • daq@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
          31·
          2 years ago

          I actually had to look it up because it sounded like Winamp, but it didn’t kick llama’s ass. Is that what they kept peddling along with Tidal sub?

          Honest question, do you not have Prime or Apple music sub or stuff you listen to is so unique, neither of those have it?

            • daq@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
              31·
              2 years ago

              That sounds like a massive enough collection to never get bored with, but don’t you want new music at least on occasion? Do you just buy individual songs or albums and add to your collection? Do costs add up? I imagine redundant storage with at least some sort of backup for collection that large isn’t cheap.

              Just trying to compare it to streaming service I get as part of my $120/year Prime membership.

    • Auli@lemmy.caEnglish
      2·
      2 years ago

      Sure put I paid for it more then a decade ago. And Jellyfin still has some bugs that are annoying.