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Are there any new efforts to build an open source plex alternative? I know about Kodi, but it has its own glaring issues.
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#13It's unfortunate, but I imagine Plex is often on the precipice of being litigated out of existence (whether or not said litigation is actually valid).
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#14A service that exists to enable piracy is banning piracy? Good luck :P This is like when OnlyFans tried to ban porn. Just close up shop then. I mean let's be honest. Piracy is the raison d'etre for Plex just like porn is for OnlyFans.
> I mean let's be honest. Piracy is the raison d'etre for Plex just like porn is for OnlyFans.
Strange, I have been using it for years to stream my own movie collection (ripped by me from my own DVDs) to my chromecasts and phones.
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#15> Got it. So they want to show the lawyers that they’re doing something to “combat piracy” even though they know it will do absolutely nothing and result in a bunch of pissed off legitimate customers. What would be a better solution, legitimately? Plex is ripe for lawsuits from media giants in every corner of the world, so even if their software isn’t illegal, they’re always going to have a target on their back and e…
Are there any new efforts to build an open source plex alternative? I know about Kodi, but it has its own glaring issues.
Jellyfin?
Re: Plex announced to block instances on German hosting provider Hetzner
#16A service that exists to enable piracy is banning piracy? Good luck :P This is like when OnlyFans tried to ban porn. Just close up shop then. I mean let's be honest. Piracy is the raison d'etre for Plex just like porn is for OnlyFans.
Look, I'm not sayin it stands for Pirate Netflix.. I'm just saying nobody has ever said it didn't stand for that.
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#17A service that exists to enable piracy is banning piracy? Good luck :P This is like when OnlyFans tried to ban porn. Just close up shop then. I mean let's be honest. Piracy is the raison d'etre for Plex just like porn is for OnlyFans.
I'd love to have a modern interface to my collection of legally acquired DVDs and BluRays and so on. It's pretty absurd that such a thing doesn't exist already. This isn't meaningfully "piracy" despite whatever the DMCA (and other laws our masters at the MPAA may have handed down to us) may say.
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#18> Got it. So they want to show the lawyers that they’re doing something to “combat piracy” even though they know it will do absolutely nothing and result in a bunch of pissed off legitimate customers. What would be a better solution, legitimately? Plex is ripe for lawsuits from media giants in every corner of the world, so even if their software isn’t illegal, they’re always going to have a target on their back and e…
Are there any new efforts to build an open source plex alternative? I know about Kodi, but it has its own glaring issues.
Jellyfin
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#19The 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.
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#20A service that exists to enable piracy is banning piracy? Good luck :P This is like when OnlyFans tried to ban porn. Just close up shop then. I mean let's be honest. Piracy is the raison d'etre for Plex just like porn is for OnlyFans.
> I mean let's be honest. Piracy is the raison d'etre for Plex just like porn is for OnlyFans. Strange, I have been using it for years to stream my own movie collection (ripped by me from my own DVDs) to my chromecasts and phones.
You're in the minority.