this post was submitted on 03 Oct 2023
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Plex is cracking down on pirated content. They can't do anything locally (yet) but they sent out a mass email about two weeks ago saying that anyone that hosts a Plex server in the cloud (they didn't specifically mention Hetzner, but that's who is largely being affected) will lose access on October 12th.
People thought hosting copyrighted content on someone's cloud and making it available to others was a good idea? 🤦🤦♀️🤦♂️
This is why we can't have nice things.
It's specifically people doing this and selling access to the servers en masse, like these servers have a hundred or more users each. The don't care about the small fish that are doing this privately for no monetary gain.
Yet.