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Am I misunderstanding the idea behind the first thing, or is that just piracy that you pay for? If you're going to go to the trouble and / or risk of pirating things and have enough technical knowhow to setup Plex on your local device, I don't know why you wouldn't just go for an old fashioned approach ... which is usually free, better quality, more reliable, etc.

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Being able to setup a legal program like Plex and knowing how to pirate high quality versions of all the media you want are two different things. People bought into Hulu and Netflix when you could get nearly everything you wanted to watch on their services.

Plex is legal to use, but not all that easy to set up, at least in my experience. At least, I would expect anyone capable of using Plex longterm on a TV to also be able to pirate stuff.

The point about legality wasn't about Plex, however. It was about paying someone to torrent stuff for you, which is still copyright infringement.

Setting up plex on a playstation 4 though that you just want to use the plex share feature is not hard though.

True. Running your own server probably costs more than 5$/month on electricity alone. No brainer if you do it yourself vs some other dude.

Pretty simple to set up. Just install the software, navigate to the webpage, and tell it what directories to look in for your media

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