That command prompt.

  • Venia Silente@lemm.eeEnglish
    4·
    23 days ago

    They could steal your personal data without you knowing.

    Hah! Like the “legal” services are much better than that!

  • Cethin@lemmy.zipEnglish
    2·
    23 days ago

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

  • Vendetta9076@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    2·
    23 days ago

    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.

    • chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      1·
      23 days ago

      people being arrested for using pirate streaming services

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

      • Vendetta9076@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        1·
        23 days ago

        Gonna be honest I didn’t read the articles so I’m not entirely sure. I did see a headline about cops going to peoples houses to issue warnings so maybe isps are snitching?

  • Kissaki@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    2·
    23 days ago

    They could steal your personal data without you knowing.

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

  • webghost0101@sopuli.xyzEnglish
    0·
    23 days ago

    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.

    • LifeBandit666@feddit.ukEnglish
      0·
      23 days ago

      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.

      • oldfart@lemm.eeEnglish
        0·
        23 days ago

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

        • LunchMoneyThief@links.hackliberty.orgEnglish
          11·
          22 days ago

          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?

          • oldfart@lemm.eeEnglish
            1·
            22 days 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