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Re: Plex Media Server on Cloud

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Post by Veratyr »

machbio wrote: post #21

this is a failed project - there was a lot of expectation when they initially started with Amazon Cloud Drive..with a technical limitation that they faced with Amazon Cloud Drive - they completely eliminated Amazon Cloud Drive from its storage options..I called it failed, because there is no way, I will pay loads of money to Dropbox or Google for the Terabyte of my Homelab videos.. Amazon Cloud Drive would definitely…

You can get unlimited data from Google Drive and Dropbox for about the price of 1TB, you just need to use a business account. This seems to be the main solution for the people I know who are using this.

Re: Plex Media Server on Cloud

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Post by [deleted] »

supernovae wrote: post #23

Anyone have any experience with this service yet? Do you have to re-encode your videos? Curious since some MKV's i ripped a while ago are transcoded and can be CPU heavy to play. Anyone know how plex cloud handles this when played on Xbox One app or Mobile phone?

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Re: Plex Media Server on Cloud

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Post by Veratyr »

ClayM wrote: post #5

Is there a good option for encrypted cloud storage that this can access? Unless you want whoever scanning your stuff and seeing your collection of anime...

No. Plex doesn't support encryption, the data coming from the cloud providers needs to be plaintext.

Google Drive and Dropbox have shown in the past that they're fine with you storing copyrighted content, you just can't share copyrighted content through their platform.

This is why Dropbox and Google Drive are still supported while Amazon Cloud Drive was removed.

That said, you can still set this up yourself with a VPS, you just need to use rclone's mount feature with encryption or something like encfs.

Re: Plex Media Server on Cloud

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Post by lobster_johnson »

teilo wrote: post #19
yellow_viper wrote: post #16

So uh, how does this work? What's to stop me from sticking my data up there and sharing it with 1000 friends? Where is the trancoding done? I was a member of a private plex group with about 8TB of media. He was constantly running into problems due to people sharing accounts, causing his server load to become unfeasible.

Because you would have to give your 1000 friends the Plex login to your paid Plex account, and this would likely be noticed and your account suspended.

That's not how Plex works. A library can be shared with any number of users that you invite into your account.

Re: Plex Media Server on Cloud

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Post by Veratyr »

dmerrick wrote: post #15

I'm a huge Plex fan, but I'm really not comfortable using this until it supports encryption. I would only use this for media where you have the legal rights to copy it.

Google Drive and Dropbox both have extensive history regarding the storage of copyrighted content which basically boils down to storing it is fine, sharing it through the platform is not. This is even in their policies.

I believe the DMCA is the same, there's nothing stopping you from possessing copyrighted content without a license, just the distribution and manufacture of it.

Re: Plex Media Server on Cloud

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Post by bane »

rando21951 wrote: post #12

I actually wish they would add support for HDFS- it's not a bad way to combine lots of somewhat-small (< 2TB) disks into a sizable amount of (seemingly) homogenous storage (without having to be super clever with mount points and hard links and BTRFS and junk like that).

Why bother? just add more directories of content to each library. Plex just merges them all at the library level. I have crap stashed over 5 drives, just plain vanilla USB drives, and plex handles them just fine.

Re: Plex Media Server on Cloud

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Post by hardoncollider »

DavideNL wrote: post #24
dmerrick wrote: post #15

I'm a huge Plex fan, but I'm really not comfortable using this until it supports encryption. I would only use this for media where you have the legal rights to copy it.

that's not even possible. where do you want to store the encryption key to decrypt the movie and play it? In the cloud as well? you can't store it in your chromecast or whatever..

Why couldn't you store this in your Plex account, versus on the storage medium?

Everything is routed through Plex's services, seems like you could decouple those two things quite easily while still having full encryption on the cloud storage.

In fact, if Plex really wanted this to succeed, they should have a tool which encrypts the files, synchronizes the files with the cloud provider, and then releases the keys to Plex.

Re: Plex Media Server on Cloud

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Post by dewey »

supernovae wrote: post #25
machbio wrote: post #21

this is a failed project - there was a lot of expectation when they initially started with Amazon Cloud Drive..with a technical limitation that they faced with Amazon Cloud Drive - they completely eliminated Amazon Cloud Drive from its storage options..I called it failed, because there is no way, I will pay loads of money to Dropbox or Google for the Terabyte of my Homelab videos.. Amazon Cloud Drive would definitely…

not sure why it would be failed because they couldn't use amazon.. i remember reading about some threat of content scanning/copyright violation problem with amazon...

they said that's not true, it was a technical limitation that they couldn't resolve

Re: Plex Media Server on Cloud

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Post by bubblethink »

Veratyr wrote: post #35
dmerrick wrote: post #15

I'm a huge Plex fan, but I'm really not comfortable using this until it supports encryption. I would only use this for media where you have the legal rights to copy it.

Google Drive and Dropbox both have extensive history regarding the storage of copyrighted content which basically boils down to storing it is fine, sharing it through the platform is not. This is even in their policies. I believe the DMCA is the same, there's nothing stopping you from possessing copyrighted content without a license, just the distribution and manufacture of it.

Plex allows sharing though. So it's a fine line. It's probably a small enough userbase, and it's personalized sharing as opposed to general p2p sharing. So it's under the radar. If it goes mainstream, Google/Dropbox will be forced to comply by the studios.

Re: Plex Media Server on Cloud

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Post by jnagro »

dmerrick wrote: post #15

I'm a huge Plex fan, but I'm really not comfortable using this until it supports encryption. I would only use this for media where you have the legal rights to copy it.

encryption is a mute point unless its some sort of end-to-end encrypted thing since they host the computers.
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