Vent@lemm.ee to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year agoPlex Will Block Media Servers at Abuse Prevalent Hosting Companytorrentfreak.comexternal-linkmessage-square74fedilinkarrow-up1197arrow-down14cross-posted to: plex@lemmy.ca
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minus-squarekilleronthecorner@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up109arrow-down3·1 year agoThis is virtually akin to banning AWS or DO. Hetzner are a legitimate and widely used cloud platform. This is akin to Google blocking Verizon because of some spam calls. A ridiculous premise that shows huge immaturity on Plex’s part.
minus-squareares35@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up19·1 year ago"a large number of Plex users use the software in violation of its Terms of Service (section “Content and Acceptable Use”, bullet items 1 and/or 6), therefore all users will henceforth be banned from using Plex."
minus-squareBlackmist@feddit.uklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1 year agoI suspect Plex have a bunch of scary letters from expensive lawyers sat in their office, and this is what they need to do to make them go away.
This is virtually akin to banning AWS or DO. Hetzner are a legitimate and widely used cloud platform.
This is akin to Google blocking Verizon because of some spam calls. A ridiculous premise that shows huge immaturity on Plex’s part.
"a large number of Plex users use the software in violation of its Terms of Service (section “Content and Acceptable Use”, bullet items 1 and/or 6), therefore all users will henceforth be banned from using Plex."
I suspect Plex have a bunch of scary letters from expensive lawyers sat in their office, and this is what they need to do to make them go away.