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Plex blocking Hetzner?

jarjar Patron Provider, Veteran
edited September 15 in General

Looks interesting: https://reddit.com/r/selfhosted/s/gXClXwWRPz

It's unclear to me at the moment what the details are, but Hetzner looks to be the common link. This is a pretty big deal, I could see a whole lot of you cancelling servers as a result.

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  • acidpukeacidpuke Member

    It certainly appears Plex is targeting Hetzner, looks like widespread abuse on there networks, to many complaints, similar to the IPTV crackdowns going on.

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  • caracalcaracal Member

    Wonder which part of their TOS this involves?

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  • jarjar Patron Provider, Veteran

    @caracal said:
    Wonder which part of their TOS this involves?

    People seem to be theorizing that it's related to people selling access to plex servers packed with pirated content.

  • caracalcaracal Member

    @jar said:

    @caracal said:
    Wonder which part of their TOS this involves?

    People seem to be theorizing that it's related to people selling access to plex servers packed with pirated content.

    Yeah, seems to be the consensus from reading OGF and Reddit. From that lens it makes the email hilarious — “if you’re sharing pirated content pls do it from another server or at home”

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  • febryanvaldofebryanvaldo Member

    @jar said: People seem to be theorizing that it's related to people selling access to plex servers packed with pirated content.

    It's clear.

    Due to the large-scale violations occurring from that hosting provider, we will be taking action soon to block access and activity from Plex Media Servers hosted by that provider.

  • bdlbdl Member

    @caracal said:

    @jar said:

    @caracal said:
    Wonder which part of their TOS this involves?

    People seem to be theorizing that it's related to people selling access to plex servers packed with pirated content.

    Yeah, seems to be the consensus from reading OGF and Reddit. From that lens it makes the email hilarious — “if you’re sharing pirated content pls do it from another server or at home”

    you forgot the "kthxbai" at the end :wink:

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  • BruhGamer12BruhGamer12 Member

    @jar said:

    @caracal said:
    Wonder which part of their TOS this involves?

    People seem to be theorizing that it's related to people selling access to plex servers packed with pirated content.

    Yea but why would plex really care

  • LTnigerLTniger Member

    @BruhGamer12 said:

    @jar said:

    @caracal said:
    Wonder which part of their TOS this involves?

    People seem to be theorizing that it's related to people selling access to plex servers packed with pirated content.

    Yea but why would plex really care

    To not end like Kodi did. Raped by copyright cartell.

  • bluehairminerboybluehairminerboy Member

    Good thing that my media server doesn’t report what I’m running it on back to the devs!

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  • emghemgh Member

    Jellyfin + Infuse = ❤️

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  • loayloay Member

    @emgh said: Jellyfin + Infuse = ❤️

    Jellyfin + Hetzner + Indrive = ❤️

    I use Kodi with Jellyfin plugin on Raspberry Pi 3 and the native apps.

  • defaultdefault Veteran

    I never tried Plex. even though there is lots of discussion about it. I really need to make time and try this thing.

  • Otus9051Otus9051 Member

    @LTniger said:

    @BruhGamer12 said:

    @jar said:

    @caracal said:
    Wonder which part of their TOS this involves?

    People seem to be theorizing that it's related to people selling access to plex servers packed with pirated content.

    Yea but why would plex really care

    To not end like Kodi did. Raped by copyright cartell.

    what happened to kodi

  • hacktekhacktek Member

    so their plan is to block datacenter IP ranges? they clearly didn't learn from Netflix doing that for years and failing at it, every mainstream VPN has an option to bypass that blocking so I'm anticipating that bypassing Plex blocks will become a differentiating factor for VPNs soon lol

  • LTnigerLTniger Member

    @Otus9051 said:

    @LTniger said:

    @BruhGamer12 said:

    @jar said:

    @caracal said:
    Wonder which part of their TOS this involves?

    People seem to be theorizing that it's related to people selling access to plex servers packed with pirated content.

    Yea but why would plex really care

    To not end like Kodi did. Raped by copyright cartell.

    what happened to kodi

    Kodi destroyed by plugin developers selling "fully loaded" kodi boxes on amazon. Kodi was pwned by maffia and banned majority of plugins for iptv. This broght them catastrophic fall of users and development stagnation. They are dead.

  • defaultdefault Veteran

    @LTniger said:

    @Otus9051 said:

    @LTniger said:

    @BruhGamer12 said:

    @jar said:

    @caracal said:
    Wonder which part of their TOS this involves?

    People seem to be theorizing that it's related to people selling access to plex servers packed with pirated content.

    Yea but why would plex really care

    To not end like Kodi did. Raped by copyright cartell.

    what happened to kodi

    Kodi destroyed by plugin developers selling "fully loaded" kodi boxes on amazon. Kodi was pwned by maffia and banned majority of plugins for iptv. This broght them catastrophic fall of users and development stagnation. They are dead.

    Same thing will happen to Plex if it goes this route. Meanwhile VPNs will increase sales because they will add Plex connections as a feature.

  • emghemgh Member
    edited September 15

    @loay said:

    @emgh said: Jellyfin + Infuse = ❤️

    Jellyfin + Hetzner + Indrive = ❤️

    I use Kodi with Jellyfin plugin on Raspberry Pi 3 and the native apps.

    Though about cancelling Infuse to save some money

    Previously it was absolutely needed for me, because of the Jellygin app’s webview player needing to transcode everything

    Now with the beta native player that can be enabled in settings, streaming isn’t impossible without Infuse anymore

    Edit: Nope, a buggy mess, Infuse it is, at least until its out of beta

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  • darkimmortaldarkimmortal Member
    edited September 15

    @LTniger said:

    @Otus9051 said:

    @LTniger said:

    @BruhGamer12 said:

    @jar said:

    @caracal said:
    Wonder which part of their TOS this involves?

    People seem to be theorizing that it's related to people selling access to plex servers packed with pirated content.

    Yea but why would plex really care

    To not end like Kodi did. Raped by copyright cartell.

    what happened to kodi

    Kodi destroyed by plugin developers selling "fully loaded" kodi boxes on amazon. Kodi was pwned by maffia and banned majority of plugins for iptv. This broght them catastrophic fall of users and development stagnation. They are dead.

    Jellyfin-Kodi plugin makes Kodi relevant again, no shite web UIs or transcoding

    If someone ever resurrects Kodi DSPlayer there will be no better media software. All Kodi is missing is the likes of madVR

  • hacktekhacktek Member

    Kodi UI stuck in 99 tho

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  • let_rockslet_rocks Member

    TorrentFreak article https://torrentfreak.com/plex-will-block-media-servers-at-prevalent-hosting-company-230915/

  • ArkasArkas Moderator

    That sucks.

  • kaitkait Member

    Stop using Hetzner, get a server at home.

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  • Smith42Smith42 Member

    Good, I hope they go through with it. It'll bring the auction prices way down again.

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  • Daniel15Daniel15 Veteran

    This could probably be bypassed by using a VPN with port forwarding (like AirVPN)?

  • sillycatsillycat Member

    @Daniel15 said:
    This could probably be bypassed by using a VPN with port forwarding (like AirVPN)?

    This can be bypassed by any VPN; you don't need to port forward for Plex to work. (afaik) (worked without it for me)

  • hacktekhacktek Member

    that is correct

    their implementation appears to just be to block from those source IPs, so gluetun your container and be on your merry way until you're blocked again

    repeat ad infinitum

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  • LTnigerLTniger Member

    Isn't plex auth mechanism doesn't require internet access to watch movies even if server is local? I mean to register new plex instance, you must go online and at that moment you get pwnd by plex.

  • vitobottavitobotta Member

    Try Stremio + Torrentio + RealDebrid. Cheap and you have literally all possible content at your disposal and max quality without having to download anything at all first.

  • kaitkait Member

    @vitobotta said: Try Stremio + Torrentio + RealDebrid. Cheap and you have literally all possible content at your disposal and max quality without having to download anything at all first.

    I don't even use RealDebrid, Stremio + Torrentio is amazing though.

  • cybertechcybertech Member

    just keep Plex private innit

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