yeah, you're not interfering with anything flying the plane through the IFE system, and it won't be the same bandwidth they use for comms either (there might be some semi-sensitive passenger information stored on the in-flight server, but entirely different techniques would be needed to bypass whatever security that's wrapped in).
But "hacking" on an aircraft isn't going to be looked on particularly sympathetically by courts
But "hacking" on an aircraft isn't going to be looked on particularly sympathetically by courts