With PLEX blocking Hetzner Hosting, I'm thinking of Moving to Jellyfin, but I have some questions. (lemm.ee)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by Vaggumon@lemm.ee to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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I use Hetzner as a seedbox and then have PLEX as my media server ran on the same hardware. It's worked perfectly fine for years. But recently PLEX says they will be blocking Hetzner hosting in the next few weeks. I've been considering moving to Jellyfin for a while, but I'm worried they will do the same thing in future.

Does anyone know if that's a real possibility?

Also, if I setup a VPN and just download stuff I torrent from my seedbox to a local PLEX server, would I be in any more risk of legal issues then I am now?

Am I looking at this completely wrong, and I should do something completely different?

To clarify what I am thinking of doing:

Keep my Hetzner as my seedbox and continue to download using my IPTorrents account. Setup a Local Plex or Jellyfin server and download from my seedbox to that local server that will be ran behind a VPN.

UPDATE: So this past weekend I did some testing and JellyFin is now my new Media Streaming software on my server. Going to take some time to learn how it works compared to PLEX, but so far things have been nearly 1 to 1. Thanks everyone for the help, I'm very grateful.

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[+] lukas@lemmy.haigner.me 17 points 1 year ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

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[-] hitmyspot@aussie.zone 4 points 1 year ago

I thought the phone home was to make it easy to have different devices talk to each other. It's similar for a lot of IoT products. If properly set up, they don't need to phone home and can find each other with the setting ayku input. However, many users are less technical and automating this through a central service makes it easier. Most companies also use this to scoop up personal info too, unfortunately.

[-] ares35@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

they're trying to double as a streaming platform (like roku channel, tubi, etc) for mass-market media. that creates a conflict between the big studios licensing that content to them and the platform's common historical use case. they may have to choose 'one or the other', and i would not be surprised if further 'actions' are taken by plex to curb (or outright remove support for) media 'sharing'.