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Update Community Rules to prohibit TOS breaking of other platforms #1074

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3 changes: 3 additions & 0 deletions docs/general/community-standards/index.md
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Expand Up @@ -25,6 +25,8 @@ At all times when interacting with the Jellyfin community via any method (Matrix

- **Do not engage in, encourage, facilitate or discuss piracy in any Jellyfin communities.** Jellyfin is a media server system for your own media collection; how you obtain media is not our concern and is not to be discussed in our communities in any form. **Do not ask about where or how to obtain media**, **do not ask about, sell, trade, or otherwise facilitate access to other users' servers** or **discuss any piracy related topics. This includes discussing technologies commonly used for piracy and personal philosophies about it**, in our communities. Please also refrain from discussing any topic that is closely related to piracy or accompanying topics and technology.

- **Do not suggest, encourage, or discuss configurations that may violate the Terms of Service (TOS) of any other platforms.** Jellyfin can interface with multiple external services, both internally (e.g. Metadata providers) and by user configuration, each of which has its own requirements and TOS to protect itself. We do not want Jellyfin or its community to develop a reputation for facilitating circumvention or breaking of other services' TOSes or be seen as a problematic member of the wider community. The exact nature of these violations is subject to interpretation on a case-by-case basis based on the service in question and the discussion, and this rule is designed to bring attention to the issue. As a concrete example, the Cloudflare Terms Of Service forbid video streaming behind a normal Cloudflare tunnel; thus, suggesting a user run their instance in this way is a violation of this rule.

- **English is the primary working language of Jellyfin, but large portions of the community are not native English speakers**. Be patient when language issues arise, and do not mistake incomplete language knowledge for ignorance or worse. If you are having trouble communicating an idea in English, please post in your native language and ask for help translating, and someone is likely to understand.

- Jellyfin is created exclusively by volunteers, as set out in our Mission Statement. Since they are freely giving their time and effort, **no volunteer contributor owes anything whatsoever to any other contributor, any user, or the project itself**. Contributors are free to come and go as they please, to work on and give attention to what they deem interesting or important, and to respond or not respond to anything they wish. **Do not badger volunteers** in any way about any topic.
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- 2020-09-14, Joshua Boniface: Initial version of the community standards document. Based _very_ loosely on several CoCs including the Contributor Covenant, and various Forum rules I've read and written over the years.
- 2022-09-03, Joshua Boniface: Update header and footer sections; reduce redundant wording; make rules clearer.
- 2024-08-12, JPVenson: Added section about respecting the TOS of other services