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Plex to block all servers hosted at Hetzner
(links.plex.tv)
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this post was submitted on 15 Sep 2023
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Anyone knows which parts of their TOS they see violated?
My guess is pirated material.
I'm assuming that benefit of hosting Plex somewhere is that it scales to multiple users better when running/selling Plex as a paid service and this is too visible for their plausible deniability.
I think if that was the case it would affect all the host not just a specific one.
I also don't think it's copyright related. PLEX server are small communities, family & friends and not some open tracker.
And I don't think Hetzner started illegally snooping around in their customers stored data and complaining to the PLEX developer about it. PLEX themselves? They could close all servers if they started snooping around what the users have. And no other party can see what media is on there.
I think there is some other reason but no clue what.
Hetzner running some diagnostics and seeing high traffic and storage? Then they would probably just inform their customers themselves and not via PLEX.
I hope we get more information in the next few days.
Possibly plex has received cease and desist regarding content hosted by that service.
That would go the host, not Plex.
I afraid Microsoft will ban me for reading news articles copied from websites without permission, or just having a pirated game on my Windows partition.
Or maybe Chrome (I use FireFox, just an example) ban me for visiting "unclean" websites.
Maybe even the landlord of my rental will kick me out for keeping book post due from the local library.
It's a scary society we live in.
Sharing for money with strangers.
Plex likely has been monitoring offerings of "Plex Shares" online, identifying a pattern of where they are hosted primarily, and taking action.