It’s not even piracy. The license permits redistribution and profiting of it.
The issue is that this increases the risk of Mihon getting shut down. Mihon devs don’t make any money. Nobody profits of those downstream developers using the name of the original project to make money besides them. It’ll just result in Mihon ceasing to exist.
Better back up your list somehow in case they go down.
Given the list is local Mihon would continue to work for the foreseeable future. The first thing to break are the extensions which doesn’t impact exporting the reading list.
If an entity makes money using a name similar to Mihon, rightsholders like Kakao are more likely to issue a cease and desist.
Kakao likely doesn’t care to differentiate between the original developers who don’t make any money and the other entity using a similar name. They might even think both projects are from the same people. Thus the downstream making money threatens the existence of the original project.
Mihon does support local sources.
This. The blue line is the watched progress and the orange line is the transcoding progress.
Unless the media also uses HDR in which case the server will still be required to transcode.
OpPS does not do interviews atm, so I’d recommend interviewing for RED.
Ugreen NAS support other OS. You could put TrueNAS or Proxmox on there, so no, there’s no security concerns (beyond all computer hardware being partly manufactured there in some way).
It won’t save you from doing a bit of work but you could use podman. There’s systemd integration so you can still start/stop/enable your services with systemctl while using docker/container images. You won’t be able to use docker-compose directly, but it’s usually not that hard to replicate the logic with systemd (Immich was a PITA at first (because they had so many microservices split into multiple images, but it improved considerably over the first two years).
I do this with NixOS quite a bit, and I’ve yet to use docker compose (although the syntax is different, it’s still the same process).
Given OP mentioned torrent and watching media in the same sentence I assume they didn’t rip their own media, and pirated it instead.
If my assumption is wrong, I apologize.
Whether they own a physical edition of that media I don’t know. In my opinion owning a physical medium of the media is a big part in the morality discussion of piracy.
But in my juriscition I’m legally not allowed to break the encryption used for CD/DVD/Blu-ray, so I’m technically pirating even if I rip my own discs. There’s obviously no way for copyright owners to find out if their discs were ripped for a private copy, but that’s also (nearly) the case for Usenet/Torrent with proper precautions.
Anyway, if you read until this point, thank you!
Especially anime often use the superior .ass subtitle format, which many devices don’t support. Sadly Crunchyroll is switching to .srt which has broader support, so it likely won’t require burning them in the video (transcoding), which is the only positive thing (still a shame imo).
https://www.reddit.com/r/anime/comments/1nuxuzs/crunchyroll_has_downgraded_their_subtitles
Given they use a N100, I’d suggest redownloading instead of transcoding for time, energy and quality savings (i.e cost).
There’s non-streamable MP4, which have index metadata at the end of the file. For those you’d have to download the end first to be able to play anything before it. But I don’t think I’ve stumbled upon it (not that I download any MP4 in general, as there’s the superior MKV).
And making sure Tailscale auto launches on a FireTV stick is a pita too. Telling them to open Tailscale on each start is not an option.
Setting up auth before Jellyfin breaks clients. This is not an option. Edit: Unless you meant VPN like Tailscale, but then you’d have to install Tailscale too, which I don’t want to explain to others.
And sharing my libraries with other friends sharing back with me is pretty great.
This feature is imo THE killer feature of Plex, although I use Jellyfin. There’s no sharing of libraries like Plex does. Multiple user accounts per server, yes, but you have to switch between servers and search separately.
Yeah, music slowing down jellyfin search was the reason I moved to navidrome.
How big is your library? 1min is excessive but I also noticed jellyfins search getting slower with an increasing amount of shows and movies. There’s projects like jellysearch which improve search noticeably.
I also wholeheartedly recommend Restic. Hetzner Storage Box or Backblaze B2 are great storage backends and directly supported by Restic.
Borg is great too, though I’ve never used it because I’ve discovered Restic first.
Disclaimer: I’m not a lawyer.
In my opinion they should be safe legally because extensions are developed and distributed separately.
But I don’t think companies like Kakao care for that. If they DMCA (or sue) Mihon devs, they’d have to de-anonymize themselves to properly fight the claim. If not, at least their website or source code repo could get taken down. If they’ve used Discord or a similar platform, chats could be used to identify them.
Ryujinx, a Nintendo Switch emulator, stopped development a year or so ago. As far as we know, it was developed cleanly without doing anything illegal. But Nintendo somehow found the developer (in Brazil I believe) and threatened them so they folded. Nintendo didn’t even need to sue them.