Hm… they only mention a general violation of the TOS.
Why would it matter for the company behind PLEX what the location of the server is? I searched the TOS for ‘home’, ‘private’ and ‘remote’ to find some kind of restriction that remote hosting wasn’t allowed but those keywords didn’t show anything.
I’m not affected by this, but I thought in the past as well about setting up a server in a data centre instead of my home.
Copyright/DMCA notices for Hetzner have been mentioned already but that seems unlikely.
Nobody knows what’s on a PLEX server, they are not public. No rights agency can run checks for any info about hosted media. Family & friends reporting their own family member for copyrighted material? Hetzner illegally snooping in customer data?
A copyright notice would go to the customer who owns/rents the server, not to the data centre owner (Hetzner).
It just doesn’t fit together with copyright, so I assume another reason.
I assume copyright holders search around for those paid plex servers and then send a notice to them.
I have heard that Hetzner forward notices to customers and then they force them off the platform in x amount of days.
Maybe it’s a hassle to deal with or they want to keep the service reputable. Not sure why they would complain to Plex though.
It might be something entirely different.
Hm… they only mention a general violation of the TOS.
Why would it matter for the company behind PLEX what the location of the server is? I searched the TOS for ‘home’, ‘private’ and ‘remote’ to find some kind of restriction that remote hosting wasn’t allowed but those keywords didn’t show anything.
I’m not affected by this, but I thought in the past as well about setting up a server in a data centre instead of my home.
I have no idea, but it sounds like Plex was contacted by Hetzner.
It’s a very good question as to either party would give a shit.
Maybe some people host huge Plex servers there and they have gotten DMCA notices and Hetzner doesn’t like that.
Copyright/DMCA notices for Hetzner have been mentioned already but that seems unlikely.
Nobody knows what’s on a PLEX server, they are not public. No rights agency can run checks for any info about hosted media. Family & friends reporting their own family member for copyrighted material? Hetzner illegally snooping in customer data?
A copyright notice would go to the customer who owns/rents the server, not to the data centre owner (Hetzner).
It just doesn’t fit together with copyright, so I assume another reason.
I assume copyright holders search around for those paid plex servers and then send a notice to them.
I have heard that Hetzner forward notices to customers and then they force them off the platform in x amount of days. Maybe it’s a hassle to deal with or they want to keep the service reputable. Not sure why they would complain to Plex though. It might be something entirely different.