Plex lays off more than 20 percent of its staff

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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