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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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