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Plex Will Block Media Servers at Abuse Prevalent Hosting Company | TorrentFreak (torrentfreak.com)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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In an email to customers who run Plex servers at the large German hosting company Hetzner, Plex said that access will be blocked next month. It’s not clear if Hetzner is the only hosting company this applies to, but several customers confirmed that they received the same email.

Has anyone here on Lemmy got this notice? Self-hosting is still in the green, but with this precedent who knows what Plex could do later.

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[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Wasn’t it Plex that led to LastPass getting breached?

I mean, why isn’t everyone using open source at this point? Companies are just clamming to suck up as much money as possible from people still stupid enough not to learn from what every other company has done! 🤦‍♂️

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

Lifetime passes vs monthly subs. FOSS equivalent product don't exist considering live TV guide, default SSL security, integration with settop media boxes, etc that Plex offers... jellyfin is close but far from the decades of polish and half baked features Plex have added

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

It was a very old, unpatched Plex server running on hardware that had access to LastPass critical data.

If you ran very old FOSS with unpatched vulnerabilities, you'd have the same problem. It wasn't Plex that did it, it was unmaintained self-hosting.

Plex has it's problems, but this wasn't one of them.