What's causing headaches are shared accounts. If plex disabled that feature they'd get rid of people who sell shares on plex instances or maybe just limit the number of shares per server. There is no legitimate use case of a plex server used by 20 accounts. Media companies go after pirates who sell pirated content before caring about users who pirate for themselves who may as well have legitimate content on their servers.
Plex announced to block instances on German hosting provider Hetzner
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#112Earlier quoted context omitted.
Tumblr definitely had (has?) cornered niche blogging too though I think? Especially photo-heavy content, as a Wordpress alternative for a personal blog not a 'website'? I think anyway, honestly didn't realise it was significantly used for porn. OnlyFans on the other hand... didn't they recently say something (trying to appease payment provider I think) about being a general purpose fan payment/follower thing (like Pa…
it was not really porn. it was nude and erotica and nsfw and generally artists expressing themselves freely. they banned all that
Serious question: do you think the majority of people aren't getting themselves off (or working their way to getting themselves off in short order) when consuming nudes, erotica and nsfw? The follow up question would then be if the majority of people are using the art to get themselves off is said art not then porn?
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#113Earlier quoted context omitted.
When I used to use Plex and it started getting shutdown the hosts always switched to Emby. I have had far more success with Kodi though since the last like 4 years. The real plex alternative to me would be IPTV services that all seem to use Xcodes and have huge VOD libraries. But Kodi + Debrid Services has been great.
plex has one thing over kodi. the streaming bit. But plex also feature wise is mostly stuck with 2008 kodi/xbmc when it forked for my use case. Kodi needs headless to compete with plex. But that is slow going as no one really is really working on it full time. They even added in a couple of years ago the emulation bits again from the original XBMC.
What is the streaming bit you are referring to specifically? I guess like from instance to instance of your own library? You can use Plex as a backend and Kodi as a frontend.
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#114Earlier quoted context omitted.
Kinda like when tumblr banned all the porn
Tumblr definitely had (has?) cornered niche blogging too though I think? Especially photo-heavy content, as a Wordpress alternative for a personal blog not a 'website'? I think anyway, honestly didn't realise it was significantly used for porn. OnlyFans on the other hand... didn't they recently say something (trying to appease payment provider I think) about being a general purpose fan payment/follower thing (like Pa…
I had never used tumblr but the impression I got from it was similar. Never knew it was full of porn.
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Perfectly set up the plug for Jellyfin! I waited way longer than I should have to migrate. In many cases you don't even need to change anything, just mount your media into jellyfin and it will read everything. Give it time to build out a cache of course. I've been way, way happier with Jellyfin than I was with Plex.
How is it for CPU usage/general snappiness? Maybe I should bite the bullet too.
Pretty good in my experience. It takes about 10 seconds to start up but once it's warm it's snappy. It ran easily on my pi (without on the fly transcoding of course), although I did move it to a desktop so I could use runtime transcoding because I have a couple clients that don't support all the codecs.
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#116Earlier quoted context omitted.
How is it for CPU usage/general snappiness? Maybe I should bite the bullet too.
Pretty good in my experience. It takes about 10 seconds to start up but once it's warm it's snappy. It ran easily on my pi (without on the fly transcoding of course), although I did move it to a desktop so I could use runtime transcoding because I have a couple clients that don't support all the codecs.
I just tried it as well, thanks! I like it a lot, though I disabled transcoding (all my clients seem OK with the codecs and I just don't like it). I'm switching over to it now!
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#117The efforts to "go legit" from Plex are entertaining. They're cutting out the piracy like they're going to find something else under there. "these pirates, who constitute a percentage of our business that rounds to 100, are really getting in the way of our business"
I tried one of their legit movies once. It was super blurry and interrupted every 10 minutes by ads. It was ridiculous. I got the impression it exists as a scapegoat only.
The catalog of legit movies on there is worse than the bargain bin of a long-closed, backwater Blockbuster.
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Technically that's still illegal in the US. Breaking DVD encryption is not legal, so ripping them is not legal.
It is more complicated than that. It is both legal AND illegal in the US: > Under United States federal law, making a backup copy of a DVD-Video or an audio CD by a consumer is legal under fair use protection. However, this provision of United States law conflicts with the Digital Millennium Copyright Act prohibition of so-called "circumvention measures" of copy protections. . > In the 2004 "321" case, Federal Distri…
Thanks for the added details, I wasn't aware of the 2004 case. Its all sort of messed up, and ridiculous for someone actually trying to follow the law.
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#119Earlier quoted context omitted.
plex has one thing over kodi. the streaming bit. But plex also feature wise is mostly stuck with 2008 kodi/xbmc when it forked for my use case. Kodi needs headless to compete with plex. But that is slow going as no one really is really working on it full time. They even added in a couple of years ago the emulation bits again from the original XBMC.
What is the streaming bit you are referring to specifically? I guess like from instance to instance of your own library? You can use Plex as a backend and Kodi as a frontend.
that is correct
Re: Plex announced to block instances on German hosting provider Hetzner
#120Earlier quoted context omitted.
plex has one thing over kodi. the streaming bit. But plex also feature wise is mostly stuck with 2008 kodi/xbmc when it forked for my use case. Kodi needs headless to compete with plex. But that is slow going as no one really is really working on it full time. They even added in a couple of years ago the emulation bits again from the original XBMC.
Plex recently added skip intro and skip credits features. They add new features from time to time.
So they added a new plugin? cool. The XBMC system is pretty flexible with its plugins. Does it use a library for it to know the movie you are watching and the amount of time to skip? Or is it just a fixed time skip?