Comment on Plex Users Fear New Feature Will Leak Porn Habits to Their Friends and Family

• Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I’m just seeing you can share libraries. How has plex not been DMCA’d out of existence?

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  • Darkassassin07@lemmy.ca ⁨7⁩ ⁨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.

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    • Evilcoleslaw@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨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.

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  • ripcord@kbin.social ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Plex themselves aren't doing the sharing

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    • Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      And DVD Jon wasn’t decrypting DVDs

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      • ripcord@kbin.social ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Yes he was. He decrypted DVDs which was the thing he got in trouble for.

        Also breaking encryption is legally different than copyright infringement

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    • vox@sopuli.xyz ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      they are proxying the data tho

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  • foggy@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨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.

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  • Amanduh@kbin.social ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    No idea I've never used it I just know some people who use it

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