norri

Work in Progress: These docs are incomplete and may contain inaccuracies. Norri is not yet available for download.

Personal Media & Legal Use

Norri helps you organize, stream, and enjoy media that you own. DVDs and Blu-rays you’ve ripped, digital purchases, content you’ve created, things you have a legal right to access. That’s what it’s built for.

It’s not a content source. Norri doesn’t provide, host, or link to any media. There’s no torrent client, no Usenet integration, no download features of any kind. It’s a tool for managing and playing back what you already have.

Remote access and sharing

Norri supports multiple user accounts and remote streaming. The intended use cases are pretty straightforward: family members in different rooms or locations, a student away at university watching from the family library, watching your own stuff from a hotel room, a partner traveling for work.

This is no different from lending someone a DVD or letting them use your streaming profile, except you keep full control of your own library.

We don’t support or condone sharing access with strangers or the public, running a commercial streaming service, or distributing copyrighted content you don’t have rights to.

We’re software developers, not lawyers, and this isn’t legal advice.

Ripping DVDs and Blu-rays that you own is legal in many jurisdictions under personal use or fair use provisions. Circumventing copy protection (DRM) may be illegal in some places, even for personal copies. Laws vary by country, so check your local regulations.

Sharing your library outside your household is technically possible (Norri doesn’t prevent it), but whether it’s legal depends on your jurisdiction and the terms under which you acquired the content. Generally, sharing beyond your household isn’t covered by personal use exceptions.

If someone accuses you of copyright infringement, that’s between you and them. We have no knowledge of or access to your library, so we couldn’t help or intervene even if we wanted to.

How is this different from Plex or Jellyfin?

It isn’t, legally. All media server software works on the same principle: you provide the content, the software helps you access it.

Norri is a tool for enjoying your personal media collection conveniently and privately. Use it responsibly.