![]() ![]() After much deliberation, the company has deemed the service too costly to maintain and has decided to shut it down: "We've made the difficult decision to shut down the Plex Cloud service on November 30th, 2018," said the company in an email to its users. ![]() The company behind the Plex Media Server will be retiring its Plex Cloud service after not being able to appropriately address the existing technical issues and business model.ĭuring its short, two-year, existence, Plex Cloud was plagued by technical issues, which had already led the company to disable the creation of new servers back in February 2018, due to "challenges with performance, quality, and overall user experience inherent with cloud provider integrations". If you can't knock down prices and keep maintenance costs down, you're forced into some hard decisions, which is what happened today. My other fear is the MPAA gets wind of all this are starts trying to pressure these providers to delete there content or possibly help them pursue legal action against users.Why it matters: Smaller companies like Plex have a lot to gain from going to the Cloud, but they rely on the infrastructure of others to make it viable. Now i'm not saying google, dropbox, and Microsoft are just gonna instantly delete your files but they might determine at some point that your content breaks there TOS and remove it. But Now your going to take all this "illegal" content and upload it a cloud storage provider, all of which have terms of service that basiclly give the full access to you content? There is no where i can think of to get HD movie files LEGALLY with no DRM or encryption and you are free to use as you please. Its not as big a risk to do that if the content stays on a server or storage in your own home i would say. ![]() So even if your entire video library is ripped from you own physical media collection its all considered illegal content. Ripping a blu ray/dvd you paid for is illegal in the US. ![]()
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