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Plex has a tough business model. It’s hard to make money from the pirates.
by fluxem 3y ago
Plex has a tough business model. It’s hard to make money from the pirates.
- JohnFen 3y agoI don't know the percentage, but an enormous number of Plex users aren't pirates.
- thfuran 3y agoWhat else do people even use Plex for?
- LASR 3y agoMaybe Linux ISOs encoded as lossy video.
- thfuran 3y agoI heard there's a hidden message from Linus if you play Jaunty Jackalope backwards.
- piperswe 3y agoMy Plex server hosts rips of my (quite large) DVD/Blu-ray/UHD Blu-ray movie and digital/CD music collections.
- freedomben 3y agoBuying DVDs/Blu-Rays, ripping them, and then getting a personal Netflix-like experience instead of the horrible DVD/Blu-Ray player experience.
- thfuran 3y agoIsn't that just expensive piracy?
- malermeister 3y agoHow is it piracy if you bought the movie?
- thfuran 3y agoBecause you're not allowed to break the encryption to copy it to hdd.
- malermeister 3y agoI am in my jurisdiction. [0] You might not be in yours, but that doesn't make me a pirate. [0] https://curia.europa.eu/jcms/upload/docs/application/pdf/2022-03/cp220050en.pdf https://curia.europa.eu/jcms/upload/docs/application/pdf/202...
- thfuran 3y agoThat looks similar to how it is in the US. But here it's not the copying that's disallowed, it's the breaking of the encryption to enable you to get a useful copy. So unencrypted but copyrighted material can be copied, but encrypted copyrighted material cannot. And blu-rays are all encrypted.
- JohnFen 3y agoIllegally breaking the encryption in order to do legal things with the video does not make you a pirate.
- dogleash 3y agoI had it running as a DIY TiVo. But since I canceled cable it's mostly an unused interface for a copy of infocon.org on my NAS and rips of a few dozen DVDs I own. I probably gave them more money with the lifetime deal than if I paid monthly for the period I used it heavily.
- Seattle3503 3y agoI connect Plex to my TV tuner so I can watch local NFL games from anywhere.
- koolba 3y agoIt’s easy if you’re selling them hardware. Even pirates are fine with paying for something you can actually touch.
- sp332 3y agoPirates spend tons of money on legit content. Movies https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/may/06/piracy-film-music-study-pay-illegal-download-damage https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/may/06/piracy-fi... music https://torrentfreak.com/pirates-spend-much-more-money-on-music-study-shows-160226/ https://torrentfreak.com/pirates-spend-much-more-money-on-mu... and books https://bookriot.com/book-pirates/ https://bookriot.com/book-pirates/
- freedomben 3y agoA lot of "pirates" don't pirate movies and music because they don't want to pay for them, they do it because they want to own them and want an actually good and respectful user experience. The biggest Plex users I know don't really pirate anyway. They mainly buy DVDs/Blu-Rays and rip them for use on Plex.
- kyriakos 3y agoI pirate because a lot of content is not available in my country. I pay for all the services that are available to me. Plex serves me well for the ones I can't buy and I bought a lifetime subscription last year. If they asked for money for future updates I'd probably pay if the amount was reasonable.