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Re:Plex lays off more than 20 percent of its staff by fluxem on Wednesday June 28, 2023 @05:36PM (#36512947)
Plex has a touch business model. It’s hard to make money from the pirates.
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Re:Plex lays off more than 20 percent of its staff by JohnFen on Wednesday June 28, 2023 @05:46PM (#36513074)
I don't know the percentage, but an enormous number of Plex users aren't pirates.
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Re:Plex lays off more than 20 percent of its staff by thfuran on Wednesday June 28, 2023 @05:50PM (#36513123)
What else do people even use Plex for?
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Re:Plex lays off more than 20 percent of its staff by LASR on Wednesday June 28, 2023 @05:53PM (#36513151)
Maybe Linux ISOs encoded as lossy video.
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Re:Plex lays off more than 20 percent of its staff by thfuran on Wednesday June 28, 2023 @06:01PM (#36513240)
I heard there's a hidden message from Linus if you play Jaunty Jackalope backwards.
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Re:Plex lays off more than 20 percent of its staff by piperswe on Wednesday June 28, 2023 @06:51PM (#36513767)
My Plex server hosts rips of my (quite large) DVD/Blu-ray/UHD Blu-ray movie and digital/CD music collections.
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Re:Plex lays off more than 20 percent of its staff by freedomben on Wednesday June 28, 2023 @07:39PM (#36514292)
Buying DVDs/Blu-Rays, ripping them, and then getting a personal Netflix-like experience instead of the horrible DVD/Blu-Ray player experience.
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Re:Plex lays off more than 20 percent of its staff by thfuran on Wednesday June 28, 2023 @07:46PM (#36514358)
Isn't that just expensive piracy?
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Re:Plex lays off more than 20 percent of its staff by malermeister on Wednesday June 28, 2023 @08:00PM (#36514485)
How is it piracy if you bought the movie?
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Re:Plex lays off more than 20 percent of its staff by thfuran on Wednesday June 28, 2023 @08:02PM (#36514511)
Because you're not allowed to break the encryption to copy it to hdd.
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Re:Plex lays off more than 20 percent of its staff by malermeister on Wednesday June 28, 2023 @08:20PM (#36514666)
I 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/202...

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Re:Plex lays off more than 20 percent of its staff by thfuran on Thursday June 29, 2023 @04:39AM (#36517918)
That 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.
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Re:Plex lays off more than 20 percent of its staff by JohnFen on Thursday June 29, 2023 @10:38AM (#36520959)
Illegally breaking the encryption in order to do legal things with the video does not make you a pirate.
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Re:Plex lays off more than 20 percent of its staff by dogleash on Thursday June 29, 2023 @08:54AM (#36519730)
I 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.

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Re:Plex lays off more than 20 percent of its staff by Seattle3503 on Thursday June 29, 2023 @11:36AM (#36521895)
I connect Plex to my TV tuner so I can watch local NFL games from anywhere.
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Re:Plex lays off more than 20 percent of its staff by koolba on Wednesday June 28, 2023 @07:00PM (#36513872)
It’s easy if you’re selling them hardware. Even pirates are fine with paying for something you can actually touch.
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Re:Plex lays off more than 20 percent of its staff by sp332 on Wednesday June 28, 2023 @07:10PM (#36513954)
Pirates spend tons of money on legit content. Movies https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/may/06/piracy-fi... music https://torrentfreak.com/pirates-spend-much-more-money-on-mu... and books https://bookriot.com/book-pirates/
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Re:Plex lays off more than 20 percent of its staff by freedomben on Wednesday June 28, 2023 @07:38PM (#36514276)
A 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.

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Re:Plex lays off more than 20 percent of its staff by kyriakos on Wednesday June 28, 2023 @11:43PM (#36516065)
I 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.
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