With PLEX blocking Hetzner Hosting, I'm thinking of Moving to Jellyfin, but I have some questions.
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.
If Jellyfin would do such stupid thing, somebody would fork it to a new project
in fact this did already happened in the past: Jellyfin was forked of Emby after they changed their license
Jellyfin is unable to do that because they don't have centralised auth like Plex does.
Not like it could be implemented.
But the the community would (as OP said) fork the project.
There's absolutely zero way that is going to get pulled into the actual Jellyfin project, hence a fork is unnecessary.
It's unreasonable to take responsibility for apps a user runs on their server.
But when you all of a sudden see a heap of Plex IP addresses hitting your provider with mass media sharing rings you've got problems.
Jellyfin however is just serving HTTP/S. Thats it. You can't ban Nginx or Apache.