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Plex will be blocking access from at least one VPS provider (imgur.com)

submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by [email protected] to c/selfhosted

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Appears to be Hetzner for now, wouldn't be surprised if all VPS get affected eventually.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago (7 children)

ITT: People who don't use Plex proudly talking about how they don't use Plex.

This move makes sense to me. They could be liable for what's hosted in the cloud, and on top of that you can't pay for access, and the host is known as a great place to let people do that.

I really don't understand the people who use jellyfin but insist on shitting on Plex. You can both use jellyfin and not also not be smug about it. It's the same reason people are tired of the Linux user or back in the day why android users were so annoying.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

Agreed. They're trying to kill off Plex Shares, where people are essentially using their software to run their own for-profit streaming service using pirated content. This shit affects all of us as it brings on lawsuits and new laws to combat just so some random dude can make some extra cash selling access.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago

On one hand I hate that legit users are punished for the actions of few cunts selling massive plex libraries and using Hetzner because of cheap storage and unlimited transfer, but I sort of understand that plex doesn't want to be associated with piracy (lol).

On the other, fuck Plex. Seems trivial to detect these massive libraries with hundreds of "friends" and just shut those down. Seems insane to block a whole fucking provider over this. I've been a paid subscriber since day one and then bought a lifetime pass, but this dumb move is making me consider other products.

But on third hand, I don't really care because I use tailscale so I almost never use the plex's proxy anyway.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago (5 children)

I wonder if you can get around this by using cloudflare proxy for a domain and then in the settings for the server disabling remote access and only allowing discovery through your domain? I'm not with Hetzner but I'll give this setup a try and see how it goes.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago (4 children)

It's against Cloudflare ToS to use video through their services (both the reverse proxy and the tunnel) unless you pay for their video streaming service.

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