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That command prompt.

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[-] Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee 13 points 2 days ago

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

[-] jinarched@lemm.ee 26 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

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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[-] DarkNightoftheSoul@mander.xyz 3 points 1 day ago

incredibly disappointed that's not a pirate streaming site

[-] TheBlue22@lemmy.blahaj.zone 40 points 3 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

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

[-] uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone 19 points 2 days ago

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

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[-] ArchRecord@lemm.ee 16 points 2 days 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.

[-] uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone 25 points 2 days ago

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.

[-] Perhapsjustsniffit@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 days ago

Pirate it all or don't watch it.

Been living by this for decades since I learned from my highschool computer science teacher that it was even possible. I'm 50 now and I have paid only twice for tv and movies in my adult life.

[-] Binette@lemmy.ml 12 points 2 days ago

The only thing I'm at risk of is receiving a warning from my ISP :(

I'll get a VPN one day I promise

[-] veniasilente@lemm.ee 234 points 3 days ago

They could steal your personal data without you knowing.

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

[-] IllNess@infosec.pub 17 points 2 days ago

Shoutout to Sony BMG putting rootkits in legally bought CDs.

Source: Wikipedia

You would be safer pirating.

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.

[-] winterayars@sh.itjust.works 43 points 3 days ago

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

[-] Don_alForno@feddit.org 9 points 2 days ago

they could steal your personal data without you knowing

Is that supposed to be more intimidating than corporations stealing my personal data with or without me knowing?

[-] ReversalHatchery@beehaw.org 56 points 3 days ago
[-] Ohmmy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 3 days ago

Pretty much everything does, even your car will and I would totally download a car if I could.

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[-] jawa21@lemmy.sdf.org 72 points 3 days ago

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

[-] AFC1886VCC@reddthat.com 32 points 3 days ago

Sky are a bunch of bastards.

[-] JadenSmith@sh.itjust.works 15 points 3 days 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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[-] skulbuny@sh.itjust.works 7 points 2 days ago

Who are they stealing my personal data from, corporation?? Are they stealing it from me or from you??

[-] Kissaki@lemmy.dbzer0.com 97 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

They could steal your personal data without you knowing.

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

[-] Cethin@lemmy.zip 117 points 3 days ago

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

[-] sub_ubi@lemmy.ml 114 points 3 days ago

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

[-] jabathekek@sopuli.xyz 73 points 3 days ago
[-] SatyrSack@feddit.org 54 points 3 days ago

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

  • Normal: 🤔
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  • Bold: 🤔
  • Strikethrough: ~~🤔~~
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[-] AFC1886VCC@reddthat.com 36 points 3 days ago

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

[-] Blackmist@feddit.uk 56 points 3 days ago

Remember kids: Torrents and Jellyfin are the only way.

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[-] whodoctor11@lemmy.ml 35 points 3 days ago* (last edited 22 hours ago)

They could steal your personal data without you knowing

lol

[-] bountygiver@lemmy.ml 20 points 2 days ago

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

[-] MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 day ago

Hey, don't point it out! People are blissfully ignorant of how much they are owned. Don't try to educate them.

  • corporations, probably.
[-] Vendetta9076@sh.itjust.works 84 points 3 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.com 25 points 3 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?

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[-] YourPrivatHater@ani.social 50 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

The website is run by Skynews, wich is not directly disclosed on the website, the privacy options button doesn't work, it doesn't have a cookie banner but does set a cookie (illegal in EU), it has a injection for Facebook, Instagram and YouTube, by doing all that, they are less compliant to GDPR than my fucking piracy site...

All in all it looks like a intern made a WordPress website, designwise ok, but regarding legality, functionality and content its at best for printing it on toilet paper.

[-] YourPrivatHater@ani.social 38 points 3 days ago

They are actually less prone to big data theft... "they could steal your personal data without you know"...while the "legal" streaming sites are stealing orders of Magnitude more wich is pretty clear by the amount of data they transmit, a website has usually no access to your contact info, your entire hard drive, the contact info of everyone in your contacts, your microphone or your camera.

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[-] Laristal@lemmy.dbzer0.com 47 points 3 days ago

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

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[-] webghost0101@sopuli.xyz 58 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 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.

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[-] TimewornTraveler@lemm.ee 23 points 3 days ago

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.

[-] Steak@lemmy.ca 13 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

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

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[-] xep@fedia.io 56 points 3 days ago
C:\> They could steal your personal data without you knowing. </
At line:1 char:57
+ They could steal your personal data without you knowing. </
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The '<' operator is reserved for future use.
    + CategoryInfo          : ParserError: (:) [], ParentContainsErrorRecordException
    + FullyQualifiedErrorId : RedirectionNotSupported
[-] Godort@lemm.ee 32 points 3 days ago

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

[-] Nougat@fedia.io 36 points 3 days ago

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

Access is denied.

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[-] undefined@links.hackliberty.org 36 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

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

[-] SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml 41 points 3 days ago
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[-] theshatterstone54@feddit.uk 14 points 3 days ago

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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[-] Vendetta9076@sh.itjust.works 30 points 3 days ago

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

[-] bad_news@lemmy.billiam.net 31 points 3 days ago

The C: prompt let's you know they mean business

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