Movie pirate? Don’t trust Plex Cloud

[Batu69]

 

Plex is a pirate’s best friend. It’s by far the best way to get movies downloaded illegally from the computer to TV. Sure, Plex has a handful of useful, legal features, but let’s be honest, its big claim to fame is hosting and serving downloaded movies. And now the company behind the software announced a service where users can stream movies, photos and music stored on Amazon’s cloud as if the content was streamed locally.

 

But don’t tell Amazon about the pirated stuff.

 

The Plex Cloud, as the new service is called, got a fair amount of coverage when it launched earlier today. On the surface it’s exciting. No longer would users have to constantly run and maintain local servers to host. Plex Cloud essentially lets users create their own Netflix. All the movies and photos and music are hosted in the cloud — the same cloud Netflix uses, actually — and they’re called down to devices on demand. Even the Plex server software is streamed from the cloud.

 

Users just have to pay the $60 yearly fee for unlimited storage on Amazon Web Services. And this is where it gets hairy. Amazon explicitly bans users from hosting infringing content on its servers — content such as downloaded movies.

 

I haven’t tried the service yet, though Plex offered to get me a beta pass as soon as they’re available. I expect it will work even with movies downloaded from The Pirate Bay and countless other sites. Amazon Web Services does not prevent users from uploading such content. But AWS will likely remove it as soon as it’s identified.

 

Amazon is not alone in this stance. Uploading such content to cloud services has long been a point of debate. Some users feel as long as the content is not publicly shared or advertised, the content will run under the radar of Amazon, Google, and the rest of the cloud providers.

 

Plex’s stance on uploading illegal content to AWS is predictable: “Those who use Plex Cloud should abide by the Terms of Use of both Plex and Amazon,” a company spokesperson told me when asked specific questions about AWS’s policies around downloaded movies.

 

Even operating in a gray area, Plex Cloud is an interesting step in personal computing. It removes the need for personal infrastructure to achieve the same outcome as if the Plex software was running on a home computer. And this is the promise of cloud computing.

 

As for the Plex Cloud, if I relied on Plex to serve downloaded movies and TV shows to my family, I would keep that content stored safely and privately on a server in my basement next to the crock pot and Halloween decorations. If I did such a thing. But I don’t.

 

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[straycat19]

I would keep the content on my neighbors computer that I hacked into so I could store all my illegal content on his system and stream it from there. 

[SnakeMasteR]

I would keep the content on a pretty fast NASA server i hacked earlier and then push the files to the president of the CIA's computer i hacked after breakfast, that pushes the stream thru VPN and Tor to my neighbor dogs kennel where i watch all the pr0ns with no doubt in fullHD and stuff and no one can bust me cause reasons. Sometimes i feel like a c0cky m0r0n. ?

[pc71520]

6 hours ago, n0_risk! said:

I would keep the content on a pretty fast NASA server i hacked earlier and then push the files to the president of the CIA's computer i hacked after breakfast, that pushes the stream thru VPN and Tor to my neighbor dogs kennel where i watch all the pr0ns with no doubt in fullHD and stuff and no one can bust me cause reasons. Sometimes i feel like a c0cky m0r0n. ?

Pretty impressive.

[Holmes]

These post's are reeking of fake narcissism and I think Im going to vomit.

[luisam]

I'm not sure if understood correctly: So I should upload movies from torrent or some another "nice" free (read "illegal") website to a Plex Cloud "folder", hosted by Amazon Web Services - which explicitly forbids users from hosting infringing content on its servers. To enjoy this offer, I "only" should pay 60 USD yearly!

 

WTF!!!

 

If you have those easy 60 dollars (I don't), better invest them on a premium account of some hoster website, find some friendly warez site, start dowloading all you want, as fast as you can and forget fairy tales about Torrents, Plex Cloud and Litlle Red Riding Hood watching content from your computer

[steven36]

1 hour ago, luisam said:

If you have those easy 60 dollars (I don't), better invest them on a premium account of some hoster website, find some friendly warez site, start dowloading all you want, as fast as you can and forget fairy tales about Torrents, Plex Cloud and Litlle Red Riding Hood watching content from your computer

Best to pay a few dollars a month for a VPN   and dont pay these scam sites anything  i downloaded at full speed from filelockers  for many years and never paid  one red  penny  . If you pay too download  Warez it shows you really have no idea whats going on .

 

Maybe back in 2010 you would need to buy a premium account  but now days  most warez sites  get paid by ads at there site and they have some fast free host that pay warez sites for hosting them thorough ad revenue and there are ways to download from premium  filelockers  without paying for many years now and a smart person just blocks the ads with a adblocker  and scripts and dont pay at all ..lol. 

[luisam]

6 hours ago, steven36 said:

Best to pay a few dollars a month for a VPN   and dont pay these scam sites anything  i downloaded at full speed from filelockers  for many years and never paid  one red  penny  . If you pay too download  Warez it shows you really have no idea whats going on .

 

Maybe back in 2010 you would need to buy a premium account  but now days  most warez sites  get paid by ads at there site and they have some fast free host that pay warez sites for hosting them thorough ad revenue and there are ways to download from premium  filelockers  without paying for many years now and a smart person just blocks the ads with a adblocker  and scripts and dont pay at all ..lol. 

 

For a start please take note: warez sites don't ask you money to download. At least not those I've ever visited. I don't consider warez sites those which  ask for paid subscription. Warez are happy to show you posted links 100% free. The more people visit them, the better: they live from advertisement and get ads for number of contacts. The problem is that Warez sites post links to download movies from host sites. like rapidgator, uploaded, nitroflare, and dozens of similar sites and host site DOES ask for money. Is it a scam? Actually, no. You get what you are paying for: you can download without limit.  It's on you to select a Premium account with a "good" hoster, one with lots of links.  Your only problem might be that the site might be closed down by some "official" action.

A good quality HD movie might have about 8 - 10 Gb; Blu-Ray  format might be about 40 Gb. Some "nice" uploaders give you the Free option, to download parts of about 500 - 1000 Mb BUT, hoster will limit your download speed and time between downloads. Even if you have VPN and a 100 Mbps connection, to get a Bluray movie with these limitations might take you about 2 weeks if you don't have a Premium account.

By the way smart person might block the ads with adblockers but smarter sites detect adblocker and won't let you download anything, actually, won't even let you connect to main site.

 

I don't pay to download but I would be really happy if you could provide me a site, ony one, please, and not a torrent site, which might let me to download free all I want from a fast free host,  I wouldn't even mind some logical advertisement and if it asks me to register, of course without providing my credit card data.

 

[steven36]

10 hours ago, luisam said:

Warez are happy to show you posted links 100% free

Not always true many sites now hide there links under the adfy or Linkbucks  you have too pay by looking at ads or bypass these sites to even see them ...They figured out by doing this they could be paid without you buying  a premium account  and give you fast free links.  If they dont hide the links with ad link hiders  the more likely they  only have links were you need to buy a premium account. There going get paid one way or the other . If you access warez sites or p2p sites etc without a adblocker  they get paid regardless if you download or not.