> If true, sounds to me like Plex is feeling the pressure from studios/distributors, and is taking a bit of a shotgun approach mixed with 'act now, ask for forgiveness later'.

One of the best ways to increase the studios revenues right now is to spent more money on cracking down on people running pirate streaming services to force people to spend money on shitty digital rentals or cheap streaming. Even getting their eyes in front of ads on the really bad services is worth it