I would like to authenticate my sibling's iTunes on his mac so he can watch movies I've bought. I know if I authenticate his iTunes I can copy a file over that I've bought and he'll be able to watch but I want to know if he can just browse my my collection from the cloud and watch what he likes.
Update:
I do have an iTunes account, all my movies/TV shows are in the cloud. I do not have iTunes match as I don't have much of a music collection.
I want to know if an authenticated machine will be able to access my movies and TV shows from the cloud. That is, I do not want to have to download them all on my computer and put them on a massive (300+ movies, 80+ TV shows each with 3+ seasons) drive and give that to my sibling.
Best Answer
Yes. You can authenticate as many as 5 iTunes computers that you own or control according the the terms of the iTunes store.
There should be a download icon that displays in iTunes when you have purchased some new content that he can download. This process is designed so that a single user with multiple machines can easily download content on all of them (think iMac, Macbook Air, etc.).
Since you mentioned cloud, you will need to subscribe to iTunes Match for this computer to have streaming access / download access to movies that were sold from iTunes. Movies and videos you have in your local library do not get uploaded to the cloud, so you would need to get those to your sibling's Mac or set up a network where you could use Home Sharing or another service to stream content that's not on Apple's iCloud/iTunes CDN.