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.

    • @nathris@lemmy.caEnglish
      10•10 months 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.

    • @SnugZebrasEnglish
      10•10 months ago

      Yes you can use a plug-in for intro skipping, and can download for offline playback.

      • Chariotwheel
        5•10 months ago

        And opposed to current plex not just the person paying premium can directly download from the web ui, but everyone who has permissions.

    • @M500@lemmy.mlEnglish
      4•10 months 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.

      • Mister BeanEnglish
        1•10 months 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