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this post was submitted on 02 Apr 2025
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Hacking, even on an insecure system, would be illegal. Any copyright troll trying to sue a single user for having a private jellyfin instance which they hacked to find out about would probably have a hard time actually making a case.
"Yeah, this one guy was distributing films to himself and a few friends. I know because I hacked him" doesn't seem like a good case.
Nothing about this is hacking. They're not defeating any authentication mechanism to scan your system. That's the whole problem here. Nothing illegal about running a crawler/scanner service.
The fact that you have their content publicly accessible is not a "bad case" at all. Open FTP sites were sued plenty. It may be a bit harder to prove distribution intentions... but wouldn't be hard to make a case that you violated copyright for the content they could enumerate.
It's not publicly accessible, though. An account is clearly needed.
No... that's the point of this thread. There is no requirement to login in order to manually access endpoints. Up to and including pulling video data.