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[–] TheaoneAndOnly27@kbin.social 47 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Ahhhh, So this is why they're really cracking down on banning plex shares.

[–] cyberpunk007@lemmy.ca 8 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I missed that news. What's happening?

[–] TheaoneAndOnly27@kbin.social 13 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Our plex share had to move over to emby. And then they were kind of going through in systematically banning people. So a lot of people just got banned for pirated content.

[–] harry_balzac@lemmy.world 14 points 10 months ago

I went through the same thing with the share I was on.

Plex biting the hand that fed them. There's no reason to use Plex over anything else at this point.

[–] neo@lemmy.comfysnug.space 1 points 10 months ago

They got banned for selling access to pirated content.

[–] stratosfear@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 10 months ago (2 children)
[–] TheaoneAndOnly27@kbin.social 8 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Oh hey! Actually I did find a news article. I was curious if I could https://medium.com/@divitia/what-are-plex-shares-why-they-were-banned-f5a43735ffbb

Edit. Just finished reading it.... Eh... "News" might be a bit of a stretch for the article.

[–] stratosfear@lemmy.sdf.org 8 points 10 months ago

Ahhh... Yeah definitely a bad idea to advertise you're breaking the TOS on a public website

[–] TheaoneAndOnly27@kbin.social 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I mean the source I have is not really particularly great, Just my first hand account and what I was told about why we were moving to a different system. It was just that I was part of a plex share where all of us were getting banned for it being associated with the the Plex share. So the plex share moved over to using emby.

[–] stratosfear@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 10 months ago

Thanks, that's fair. I share my Plex with about five people who use it often but I'm waiting for the day it goes away.