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Is there a good option for encrypted cloud storage that this can access? Unless you want whoever scanning your stuff and seeing your collection of anime...

by ClayM 10y ago

benologist 10y ago
Plex are already monitoring everything you have and watch and send that information to their servers for retrieving meta info/thumbnails from third-party APIs they proxy.
- bubblethink 10y ago
  It's about the cloud provider monitoring your data. Plex by definition has to see the data to serve it.
  - benologist 10y ago
    Plex the software running on your own hardware playing files on your own storage is a MiTM funneling your data through their servers to publicly accessible third-party APIs. Plex the company does not need to do that to play or catalog your videos. Plex the cloud software (aka Plex the software on a VM) keeps them out of your private network but will still superfluously send your data from the VM to Plex the company.
pgrote 10y ago
This is a pretty good guide for Amazon Cloud drive: https://www.reddit.com/r/PleX/comments/58uhmo/guide_to_using_amazon_cloud_drive_and_encfs_for/ https://www.reddit.com/r/PleX/comments/58uhmo/guide_to_using...
- jonursenbach 10y ago
  ACD no longer works with Plex Cloud.
  - drampelt 10y ago
    With this setup you run your own Plex server and mount ACD as a filesystem.
Veratyr 10y ago
No. Plex doesn't support encryption, the data coming from the cloud providers needs to be plaintext. Google Drive and Dropbox have shown in the past that they're fine with you storing copyrighted content, you just can't share copyrighted content through their platform. This is why Dropbox and Google Drive are still supported while Amazon Cloud Drive was removed. That said, you can still set this up yourself with a VPS, you just need to use rclone's mount feature with encryption or something like encfs.
- brandur 10y ago
  > Google Drive and Dropbox have shown in the past that they're fine with you storing copyrighted content, you just can't share copyrighted content through their platform. Is there some kind of reference you can point at to support this pretty wild claim? Even if true, this seems the kind of informal policy that could change on a whim.
  - Veratyr 10y ago
    Google Drive TOS: https://support.google.com/docs/answer/148505?visit_id=1-636247063983399217-3204813779&rd=1 https://support.google.com/docs/answer/148505?visit_id=1-636... "Respect copyright laws. Do not share copyrighted content without authorization or provide links to sites where your readers can obtain unauthorized downloads of copyrighted content." Note the "share", there's no reference to merely storing content. Dropbox does seem to be "informal" though. They simply say they respond to complaints. I'm not sure how you'd be subjected to a complaint storing data privately though.

Is there a good option for encrypted cloud storage that this can access? Unless you want whoever scanning your stuff and seeing your collection of anime...

by ClayM 10y ago

Is there a good option for encrypted cloud storage that this can access? Unless you want whoever scanning your stuff and seeing your collection of anime...

benologist 10y ago

Plex are already monitoring everything you have and watch and send that information to their servers for retrieving meta info/thumbnails from third-party APIs they proxy.

bubblethink 10y ago
It's about the cloud provider monitoring your data. Plex by definition has to see the data to serve it.
- benologist 10y ago
  Plex the software running on your own hardware playing files on your own storage is a MiTM funneling your data through their servers to publicly accessible third-party APIs. Plex the company does not need to do that to play or catalog your videos. Plex the cloud software (aka Plex the software on a VM) keeps them out of your private network but will still superfluously send your data from the VM to Plex the company.

pgrote 10y ago

This is a pretty good guide for Amazon Cloud drive: https://www.reddit.com/r/PleX/comments/58uhmo/guide_to_using_amazon_cloud_drive_and_encfs_for/ https://www.reddit.com/r/PleX/comments/58uhmo/guide_to_using...

jonursenbach 10y ago
ACD no longer works with Plex Cloud.
- drampelt 10y ago
  With this setup you run your own Plex server and mount ACD as a filesystem.

Veratyr 10y ago

No. Plex doesn't support encryption, the data coming from the cloud providers needs to be plaintext. Google Drive and Dropbox have shown in the past that they're fine with you storing copyrighted content, you just can't share copyrighted content through their platform. This is why Dropbox and Google Drive are still supported while Amazon Cloud Drive was removed. That said, you can still set this up yourself with a VPS, you just need to use rclone's mount feature with encryption or something like encfs.

brandur 10y ago
> Google Drive and Dropbox have shown in the past that they're fine with you storing copyrighted content, you just can't share copyrighted content through their platform. Is there some kind of reference you can point at to support this pretty wild claim? Even if true, this seems the kind of informal policy that could change on a whim.
- Veratyr 10y ago
  Google Drive TOS: https://support.google.com/docs/answer/148505?visit_id=1-636247063983399217-3204813779&rd=1 https://support.google.com/docs/answer/148505?visit_id=1-636... "Respect copyright laws. Do not share copyrighted content without authorization or provide links to sites where your readers can obtain unauthorized downloads of copyrighted content." Note the "share", there's no reference to merely storing content. Dropbox does seem to be "informal" though. They simply say they respond to complaints. I'm not sure how you'd be subjected to a complaint storing data privately though.