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Like https://jellyfin.org/ [jellyfin.org]
I’ll at least be trying it. Thanks.
Plex was a nice solution for a long time, seems like something new is required.
The Plex client verifiably sucks on Nvidia shield. I know I’m not the only one who has experienced this because I’ve seen other comments on Reddit. And I know that it’s the Plex client not the shield software or the Plex server because they were issues streaming non-transcoded 4K from my plex server to Plex client, but no problem on the same hardware playing via VLC.
I switched to jellyfin and everything worked well.
shield 2019 pro plays everything perfectly with plex. the only issue is possibly if you have constrained bandwidth where spikes (from e.g. blu-ray remuxes) may cause an issue with frame drops etc. I’ve heard some other players like infuse may be slightly better (not sure if it’s because they have a newer version of mpv or they just sip from buffer a bit different)
I see many OSs but not freebsd.
Duh, nvm…
https://forums.freebsd.org/thr… [freebsd.org]
Hetzner is known to host a lot of questionably legal content. And be extremely slow responding to takedown requests, if they even acknowledge them. Couldn’t say if it’s by design or not, or if they just don’t care, but it’s been a not-well-kept secret for a while.
The whole reason Plex exists is to support piracy, why shut down this one server and not shut down the company itself?
Plex exists to allow people to self-host content for personal reasons. Not to set up for profit pirate streaming services.
Hosting a pirate server on your home Internet connection for the benefit of a handful of friends flies below the radar.
Hosting it in a data center and selling access to anyone who can pay is more apt to attract unwanted attention. I did not realize this was thing until TFA. The Plex people in my circle are tech hobbyists, hosting on home internet, sharing with a very small handful of people, and the First Rule of Fight Club is strictly enforced.
Content that is in 99.9% of case, pirated.
Content that is in 99.9% of case, pirated.
There’s a huge difference between hosting a server at your home for your family to enjoy vs hosting a server and selling access to others for a profit. Even if the content was purchased, its still far beyond the grey area when you start selling access.
Saying that a streaming media server exists to support piracy is like saying that Craftsman exists to support auto theft.
Using a hammer to break a window doesn’t mean that hammers should be banned. It means that people that use hammers to smash windows should be held accountable.
It means that people that use hammers to smash windows should be held accountable.
So then you agree, people who “share” music, movies, and software with their 1 million “friends” should be held accountable.
The people who abuse Plex to profit from it are ruining things for the majority of people who use it for personal reasons. People who set up paid pirate streams using Plex are scum.
People who don’t pirate are fucking scum.
The people who abuse Plex to profit from it are ruining things for the majority of people who use it for personal reasons. People who set up paid pirate streams using Plex are scum.
The people who abuse Plex to profit from it are ruining things for the majority of people who use it for personal reasons. People who set up paid pirate streams using Plex are scum.
You’re saying only pirates who get paid are scum.
The pirates who don’t get paid (which I assume you are one of) are OK.
Correct
The people who abuse Plex to profit from it are ruining things for the majority of people
The people who abuse Plex to profit from it are ruining things for the majority of people
As with a lot of “X ruins Y for Z” claims, IMO it relies on the assumption there is only one variable involved or one aim of blame, faultily.
I mean, if something happens, and a party overcorrects afecting people (when it is arguably avoidable), in general I mean, shouldn’t the overcorrecting party hold part of the blame?
What I get from this is a large number of users are likely illegally hosting and distributing media on a platform (Plex) that phones home and rats them out?
Or else…
Why would Plex block an entire ISP for behavior that cannot be proved comes from Plex servers using the IPS?
Don’t you self host your Plex server?
I don’t get it. What are they cutting off exactly?
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