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While I can totally sympathize with a company needing to take measures to curtail piracy and appease property owners, this is like burning down a house to put our a candle.
I personally self host so this won't be a problem for me, but they're gonna hit a lot of people who hosted at this domain, that weren't participating in illegal activities.
I guess Plex must have saw it as prevalent enough to warrant a total ban, it was either really bad, or they're being overzealous.
To be frank, how do you even use Plex without pirating? Ripping your own DVDs and Blurays? And if so, isn't that sort of considered piracy by the powers that be?
There is free content on Plex now. You could never pirate a single movie and still have content.
that alone isn't worth 'yet another app'
it's titles that are also on other services (including free or 'ad supported'--and ones which work with ubo and/or pihole) or titles that seem to rotate frequently and continually between several services.