Comment on That's all folks, Plex is starting to charge for sharing

• gdog05@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  No it’s not. It used to be. They removed that part of the TOS about video streaming back in 2023.

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  • Nibodhika@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    It’s not completely gone, it’s just that now they offer you a way to do it, here’s some doc about it:

    Finally, we made it clear that customers can serve video and other large files using the CDN so long as that content is hosted by a Cloudflare service like Stream, Images, or R2

    Source: blog.cloudflare.com/updated-tos/

    some users attempt to misconfigure our service to stream video in violation of our Terms of Service

    Source: …cloudflare.com/…/delivering-videos-with-cloudfla…

    In short, streaming videos hosted on your server is still against TOS, but they now offer a thing called Stream where you can host videos to be streamed without violating it.

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    • gdog05@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      That’s for the CDN. It’s about serving static, cached content faster. I actually tried to pay and use their Stream service, but it’s only to be used for serving video in a when page. While they’ve not directly clarified on the topic (even after being asked directly in the forums several times), don’t turn on caching and it appears to serve the language they’ve used in the updated TOS. I’m not a lawyer here, but parse that all as you will. Don’t take up storage on their CDN and they seem to be happy. I actually did buy some domain names through them to make sure I’m not just using their services without giving anything back. But, that’s a matter of conscience.

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  • Evotech@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I’m assuming you don’t just stream home made movies

    Stemming pirated Covent is against tos

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    • gdog05@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Who’s to say what content I stream. You do you, boo.

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