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[–] [email protected] 251 points 1 month ago (2 children)

They could steal your personal data without you knowing.

Hah! Like the "legal" services are much better than that!

[–] [email protected] 143 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Hey now, the legal services tell you they're stealing your data. It's in section 9, subsection 14, paragraph 423 of the terms of service.

[–] [email protected] 50 points 1 month ago

It's 507 paragraphs long and written in a mix of German and Esperanto but yeah, it's right there! Clear as day!

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 month ago

Shoutout to Sony BMG putting rootkits in legally bought CDs.

Source: Wikipedia

You would be safer pirating.

[–] [email protected] 123 points 1 month ago

You should use legal streams that you pay for so you know they're stealing your personal data!

[–] [email protected] 119 points 1 month ago (3 children)

does this mean if I pay for streaming my privacy will be respected

[–] [email protected] 80 points 1 month ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 60 points 1 month ago (9 children)

Huh, I didn't think emojis would be italicized. Interesting.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago

You dropped this - /s

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[–] [email protected] 103 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

They could steal your personal data without you knowing.

So very ironic when it's the opposite between them.

[–] [email protected] 90 points 1 month ago (3 children)

so i went to their website. For a site thats immediate branding is about how scary and dangerous hackers are, you'd think their news section would be full of fraud and ransomware stories. instead, their "latest news" is solely articles about people being arrested for using pirate streaming services or selling loaded firesticks.

The single exception to this is a "social experiment" they allegedly did where they put a QR code up at the tube marked as "free streaming for life" and had people put pii in to sign up. This entire "initative" is solely another way to harvest user data lmao.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 month ago (5 children)

people being arrested for using pirate streaming services

What circumstances does that even happen in? Like a bar that plays a pirated sports stream?

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 month ago (4 children)

their “latest news” is solely articles about people being arrested for using pirate streaming services or selling loaded firesticks.

So just to be clear, the damage then is not from the actual piracy or due to any invasion from the source of the piracy, but rather 100% of the danger comes from the enforcement of piracy's prohibition.

Yes, definitely sounds like piracy is the problem here 🙄

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago

Don't do illegal drugs, kids! You could get in trouble, because they're illegal.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago (2 children)

social experiment" they allegedly did where they put a QR code up at the tube marked as "free streaming for life" and had people put pii in to sign up

It's insane that this is even legal.

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[–] [email protected] 76 points 1 month ago (2 children)

OK this hilarious. Guess who owns this domain. It is Sky UK

[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Sky are a bunch of bastards.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 month ago

They were bought by Comcast a number of years ago, so they're actually worse than before if you can believe it.

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[–] [email protected] 60 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (7 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] 27 points 1 month ago (3 children)

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

Correction: 320/1000 people know someone unlucky enough to fall for a scam. Plenty of very smart people fall for scams. All it takes is some lucky timing on the part of the scammer, where enough happens to be correct that they miss/overlook whatever tells might be present until it's too late

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

I mean, providing payment information to legitimate services is always a risk. There's so freaking many breaches that you simply have to assume your card will see fraudulent charges sooner or later and watch your statements for the unexpected activity so you can stop and reverse the charges before you miss the deadline

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[–] [email protected] 59 points 1 month ago (5 children)
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[–] [email protected] 58 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Remember kids: Torrents and Jellyfin are the only way.

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[–] [email protected] 58 points 1 month ago (2 children)
C:\> They could steal your personal data without you knowing. </
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[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Well of course it errors out, you're using powershell rather than DOS

[–] [email protected] 38 points 1 month ago (1 children)

C:\> They could steal your personal data without you knowing. </

Access is denied.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 month ago

Proof my data is safe!

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 month ago

It's actually C:/> just to fuck your shit up.

[–] [email protected] 48 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Legal stuff isn't much better these days. Advertisements unless you pau more, user tracking regardless, etc.

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[–] [email protected] 42 points 1 month ago (3 children)
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[–] [email protected] 40 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Yea and when you legally stream the mouse can legally kill you

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Clarification: The Mouse as in Disney Corporation not as in the thing you use to move your pointer.

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[–] [email protected] 39 points 1 month ago

Lmao they even have the pre-1800 British flag on their site.

[–] [email protected] 38 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

They could steal your personal data without you knowing

lol

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 month ago (1 children)

compared to legal sites stealing your personal data after telling you (it's buried among the 100+ pages TOS you agreed to)

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[–] [email protected] 37 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

You don’t use the C:/> </ terminal prefix and suffix prompt on your smartphone?

[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Legal Streams

Let Disney Kill your Family

C:> They could try to use terms and agreements to get away with murder.</

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[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 month ago

as opposed to the legal services where youre forced to hand it over along with paying exorbitant prices for a tiny catalogue

[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Last time I tried to stream a hockey game legally it just wouldn't ever load. I went back to the pirate stream.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 month ago

You probably had to be using a Smart™ TV so they could steal your personal data.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 month ago (2 children)

You wouldn't download a torrent

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 month ago (1 children)

More crime is committed in the making of media than in pirating it.

Also more wrongdoing against society and the public that the justice department couldn't be bothered with (so doesn't count as crime).

Pirate it all or don't watch it.

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 month ago (4 children)

This actually happened to me once. I illegally streamed a show and then this Italian guy Vinnie the Foot blasts through my screen. Nice guy. Asked for a towel, I made him an espresso, we watched movies and smoked cigars til sunrise.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

Fuckin Vinnie. He stole my dad's toupée my dad is still pissed about that.

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 month ago

If it wasn't across a train line it'll make more sense if someone plaster over the "il" in "illegal"

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 month ago

"1 in 10 people believe they are not at risk when using illicit sources to watch TV, film or sports."

ONE in ten? Man, they're even bad at cherry picking statistics 😂

They even cite a study with only 1,000 participants for their statistic that "32% OF PEOPLE HAVE BEEN VICTIMS OF FRAUD"

In the title, at least. The body of that claim's card says that it's the people, or someone they know that have been victims of fraud.

Gosh, I hate dishonest scare marketing campaigns.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I have one of these on a billboard near my house. Every time I feel sad, I just look up to it as I'm passing by and it gives me a chuckle. I think they actually updated it recently. These posters are in the UK for anyone wondering. And this one in particular is in the London Underground.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago

Legal streams let something worse than criminals in. Lawful criminals.

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