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> hetzner is the worst. whenever we have an attack at work, 7 out of 10 times its coming from hetzner

I suspect this is a lot more of the motivation than people using hetzner to host pirated Plex libraries. Plex is pretty pirate-friendly.

I’ve certainly experienced the waves of malicious bot traffic coming from hetzner IPs, where blocking hetzner is a convenient and easy solution. If my customers were using hetzner, I’d have to find a better and more difficult solution. I understand why Plex would want to get their legitimate users to stop using the IP ranges they want to block at the firewall level.



>pirate-friendly.

What does it mean for a provider to be pirate-friendly? Not to act on takedown requests?


i mean their whole platform is built to suit the needs of people who pirate movies and TV. it's a system purpose-built for watching pirated content. they might pretend it isn't to attract investors and avoid drawing the ire of authorities, but we all know what it is.


They do act on takedown requests.

They forward them to the customer and ask you to deal with it.

If you dont, you will be fired as customer.




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