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Is it a crime to share my jellyfin library with only one friend of mine?

I would like to share my jellyfin movies and tv shows with my friend. I was thinking about allowing only his IP address to connect to my jellyfin server.

Is it a crime? Can I be arrested for this? I do not plan on running a mega operation for hundreds of people.

Is that ok to do?

viking ,
@viking@infosec.pub avatar

That depends on your local laws. We don’t know where you live.

Lettuceeatlettuce ,
@Lettuceeatlettuce@lemmy.ml avatar

Defs use a P2P VPN solution like Tailscale, Netbird, etc.

It’s more secure anyways and allows finer control.

polonius-rex ,

don't most people have dynamic ips?

xiao ,

If this is a crime then this world is fucked up.

Revan343 ,

If course it’s a crime (or at the very least illegal, but a civil matter), you’re distributing pirated media.

Are you going to get caught? No.

pelletbucket ,

so long as you guys don’t watch the same thing at the same time from two different locations, it’s effectively you just letting him borrow one of your DVDs (I’m a not a lawyer)

verstra ,

All responses are saying “it is illegal”. But is it more illegal than pirating a movie for yourself only? Would it still be illegal if you would have paid for the movie? In that case it seems like lending the dvd to a friend…

criitz ,

Distributing to others is “more illegal” than consuming it yourself

hendrik ,

I'd say two people pirating a movie is exactly double as illegal compared to one person doing it. At least in total. And sharing a legal copy with friends is completely fine in lots of jurisdictions. I mean other terms and conditions apply... You might have to circumvent some copy protection to be able to do that, and that might be a different offense. But apart from that, it's similar to lending them a DVD (Well, actually since you're copying it, it'd be more like burning them a copy of one of your DVDs).

ThisIsAManWhoKnowsHowToGling ,
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Yes. But is it moral? Also yes. Will you get sued? Almost certainly not.

theroff ,

In my country that would be a civil offence.

I’d recommend at least taking some precautions (e.g. use TLS or Wireguard, firewall if possible).

dactylotheca ,
@dactylotheca@suppo.fi avatar

That’d depend on your local copyright laws, but it’s probably illegal.

Getting caught without your friend calling the cops on you is extremely unlikely, at least assuming you don’t do anything fantastically stupid

Blizzard ,

That’d depend on your local copyright laws

Exactly. In Poland that would be legal because it’s personal use with close circle (family, friends). It’s legal to download a copyrighted media file that’s been shared online and share it within that close circle but not share it publicly or to larger groups. So downloading a copyrighted file via torrent is still illegal because you are simultaneously sharing the file with wide audience.

The regulation roughly translates to ‘fair use’ and there need to be similar laws on other countries as well, at least for the download part. You should be free to assume that whoever put a media you see online had the right to do so (if they didn’t, they broke the law but not you by downloading). If downloading a copyrighted media file was illegal then visiting any website would be a crime because they contain media (images, videos) that our browsers automatically download in order to display them.

This does not apply to software.

CaptainBasculin ,

Technically a crime; but there’s no one to out you for criminal activity.

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