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Don’t trust a VPN kill switch, they can fail. Bind your torrent client to your VPN network interface.

Yes, but you should use a reverse proxy for anything open to the internet. If you use a reverse proxy (without passing X-Forwarded-…), Plex and Jellyfin should have feature parity with this change.

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.

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.

https://mihon.app/docs/guides/local-source/

OpPS does not do interviews atm, so I’d recommend interviewing for RED.

Yes. Some cracks don’t replace the call to a server entirely, and instead use a local server to return the expected response. In this case, the DRM would run normally, except for it not contacting the offcial remote server.

Obviously if a crack removes a DRM completely, there might be a performance advantage. It depends on several factors.

DRM tends to mess with your game, framerate even. People who pirate don’t have that problem.

Not necessarily. Often times DRM doesn’t get removed or completely bypassed, instead they only make the license check pass. In this case performance should be identical to the licensed original.

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).

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’m honestly fine with DRM, as long as it’s removed within my definition of reasonable time. I’d say a year vor two.

Once the DRM is removed it allows for archiving and preserving the piece of media — as well as pirating copies.

It’s a fork, done by a previous Tachiyomi developer and maybe a TachiyomiSY developer too. So it’s partly a publishing team change, as the main developers are different.

Since Mihon is exactly the same as Tachiyomi, besides changed branding and requiring Android 8+, it’s also a rebrand.

Edit: It’s also functionally exactly the same software.

Kakao (hopefully) won’t get to know the real names of the developers, which will prevent them from suing the devs personally.

They could try to DMCA claim the repo, but Tachiyomi is completely legal, so hopefully Github won’t take it down. Github previously helped youtube-dl after they got DMCA notices.

As far as we know, TachiyomiSY has the same relationship with Mihon as it did with Tachiyomi previously. Maybe it’ll change since SY’s dev is also said to work on Mihon, but we’ll see.

At the moment Mihon is the same as Tachiyomi with changed branding.

Thank you for pointing out my misinformation. I’ve edited the comment accordingly.

A long time Tachiyomi developer made the commits making branding changes to Mihon, so they might work together. But as they didn’t fork TachiyomiSY, its dev might continue work on it too.

If anyone’s wondering why Mihon looks slightly different than Tachiyomi, the reason is this is a fork of TachiyomiSY, which has some changes/features over Tachiyomi (e.g. a predicted next chapter release date).

What I wrote is all wrong. I’ve just looked through the commit history and Mihon is a fork of Tachiyomi and currently it doesn’t have any changes besides branding and being Android 8+.

I don’t know why I believed otherwise, but it might be F-Droids 3 months old Tachiyomi build, which lacked many features compared to up-to-date TachiyomiSY.