Comment on Plex Users Fear New Feature Will Leak Porn Habits to Their Friends and Family
Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de 10 months ago
My privacy is again protected by not having friends!
Seriously though, I didn’t know there were ways to follow/friend people on plex. Why would one want to see what others are watching?
I’d like to know what my friends are watching because then I might choose to watch the same thing so I could discuss it with them, especially if it was something I was planning on eventually watching anyway.
But OTOH I really don’t want to know about any of my friends’ porn watching habits.
But don’t you and your friends discuss what you’re watching? We talk about everything we like so the only things I’d learn from this are the things they watch but don’t like, their guilty pleasures, and their porn habits (though I also can’t imagine using plex for porn). I don’t want to know any of that.
Amanduh@kbin.social 10 months ago
People share their plex servers with friends
Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de 10 months ago
I’m just seeing you can share libraries. How has plex not been DMCA’d out of existence?
Darkassassin07@lemmy.ca 10 months ago
Plex isn’t hosting the illegal content and that which they are hosting they properly license. Plex in particular is pushimg harder and harder to host content for you, instead of you hosting your own.
Officially, the ‘personal media server’ side of things is for sharing home videos/pictures, not commercialized content. (this applies to Plex, Emby, and Jellyfin)
It’s the users/server operators responsibly to have the correct licensing for whatever they are hosting to others.
Evilcoleslaw@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Also Plex has been cozying up to media companies and the more they do the more action they’ve taken. Banning whole hosting providers (Hetzner) and even banning some small-time users running small servers.
ripcord@kbin.social 10 months ago
Plex themselves aren't doing the sharing
Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de 10 months ago
And DVD Jon wasn’t decrypting DVDs
vox@sopuli.xyz 10 months ago
they are proxying the data tho
foggy@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I’m guessing because it’s not illegal. Their users are the ones breaking the law. Like reddit or Facebook, the platform isn’t held liable for the illegal activity it promotes.
Amanduh@kbin.social 10 months ago
No idea I've never used it I just know some people who use it