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Illegal Streams Let Criminals In (lemmy.federate.cc)
submitted 1 week ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[–] [email protected] 60 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (10 children)

I went to their website just to have a laugh. This is some real shizo propaganda.

You could replace all of it with: Only watch self sourced pirated media! Paying and relying on any service has inherent risks

“1 in 3 (32%) people who illegally stream in the UK say they, or someone they know, have been a victim of fraud, scams, or identity theft as a result.”

320/1000 people know someone unlucky enough to fall for a scam.

This risk increases significantly when users exchange credit or debit card information to view content on unregulated and illicit websites.

If you pay for your pirated content you are doing it wrong.

Watching content via an illicit source can expose younger viewers to age-inappropriate content. These unauthorised websites, devices, apps, add-ons, and the content they can access have no parental controls.

My kids get a tablet exclusively pointing to a private media server in order to obtain the parental controls for-profit services just don’t provide. I banned YouTube kids, it was a shitfest.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago (2 children)

If you pay for your pirated content you are doing it wrong

I don't think I am, it's Usenet and a VPN, and costs less than my Spotify Family account.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

But this is paying for a service that's used to obtain content, not directly for the content

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

And you can pay with crypto, not providing any personal information at all

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Aside: I am surprised to see people (on the fediverse of all things) hating on cryptocurrency. Where did this sudden turn of perception come from?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

Oh that is so odd. I'm not from the US but I think cryptocurrencies are somehow associated with right wing there and the left wing hates on them because of this?

It's so odd seeing people self-describing as oppressed minorities hating on technology that lets you bypass that oppression.

So, as always, politicians are at fault

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