[upon_drumhead]

Plex has been collecting user data for awhile now. The notice recommends hosting your server at home, tying the consumed media to a specific ip that can be used to tie to a specific person.

Honesty, I think Plex is a honeypot and is going to be used to start massive legal suites against people.

[jokowueu]

I doubt that it's a honeypot , they have been slowly banning private plex4shares for a while now this isn't new , they are all moving to other server/clients now

[npteljes]

Honestly, a change in management could turn it into that. Then suddenly the collected data becomes useful.

[Dalewyn]

>tying the consumed media to a specific ip that can be used to tie to a specific person.

A server in a data center will also have a specific IP tied to a specific person (customer of data center or ISP), assuming the server is supposed to be remotely accessible in a reliable way.

[kuschku]

Some hosters will freely give out the personal data of who owns what, others won't.

This would explain why only some hosters are affected and not others.

[tyrrvk]

I wonder the same thing. It had a lot of 'renegade cool kid' energy early on, I suspect this was done on purpose. However, if you look at the investors, and people working on the project now (lot of industry types) it's moved slowly into the corporate sphere. I think rather than legal assault, they are going to slowly start to boil the frog and users will find themselves in a system that differs radically from what they expected (or want) and by that time moving all their files etc will be too much. I stayed far away, and have supported Kodi the entire time.