Appears to be Hetzner for now, wouldn’t be surprised if all VPS get affected eventually.

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    1 year ago

    If the vast majority of people on they host were selling access it makes sense. Users don’t want to hear it but Plex has to shield themselves from lawsuits. If you willfully let people break the law with your product as a feature you have no argument in court. Same goes for why they add all these features they core users don’t want. They need a reason to argue that they don’t just make money on piracy. FOSS doesn’t usually get sued though, but nothing is preventing it. Everyone needs to be careful and if your going to illegally download movies don’t be greedy and sell access to it.

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      That’s a big if. Hetzner isn’t some tiny piracy haven. it’s a well known and very popular German hosting company.

      Even if it’s popular with those resellers, it’s certainly also popular with others.

      And Plex has ways to identify the problematic hosts. why don’t they just shut those down?

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        1 year ago

        I’m just speculating, but maybe the vast majority of people running on VPS are doing these things. Idk if it’s even allowed in their terms of service.