Plex Sued for Copyright Infringement by Press Agency

Vent@lemm.ee to Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ@lemmy.dbzer0.com – 162 points –
torrentfreak.com

Title is somewhat misleading. It's not for anything video-related. It's for using a (probably free) photo of actress Cuca Escribano without permission.

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Most people use the service for perfectly legitimate purposes. On the fringes, however, some users abuse the software to share pirate libraries publicly, a considerable thorn in the side for rightsholders.

I've been using it for over a decade and I don't know single person that uses it for "perfectly legitimate purposes" (assuming they mean "not for pirated content, considering the next sentence). There's no reason to use Plex as a front end for all other streaming services.

Backing up your own physical media is a legitimate and legal privilege though

Absolutely, it's just a huge pain in the ass, I did it when I started out back in the late 2000s and didn't have access to any good torrent sites and my college blocked torrents anyway.

Yeah it doesn't matter your experience. You need to accept everyone is innocent unless you can prove it. So... To bad

You need to accept everyone is innocent unless you can prove it. So… To bad

What? I'm not a lawyer out to get people, I'm just saying that the majority of their userbase is most likely playing pirated material.

And I'm saying you can't prove that, so it doesn't matter. It's just a guess. A good one in my opinion, but nothing else.

There's no reason to use Plex as a front end for all other streaming services.

I’ll disagree here. If I don’t know where something is, I can just list all of the streaming services I subscribe to in Plex and just go there to start watching something.

Moreover the individual streaming services have designed their apps to literally hide the shows you’ve been watching whereas Plex keeps things front and centre. Much smoother.

There's sites that provide that service as well, it's not specific to Plex, but if you're already on Plex it is a nice feature, unless you're my parents and think that it's already in the library and then get annoyed when they see you have to pay for it half the time.

To help them out, you could unselect those services which require payment inside Plex, and just leave the streamers to which they have access?

I’m not aware of any alternative services on Apple TV that do this. Certainly Just Watch and services that interact with it will work, but not with the same integration with my own library.