That command prompt.

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    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.

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      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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        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?

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          I’d be skeptical that’s even real, outside of a select few countries with especially strict copyright enforcement

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            Not even in the US, which it seems leads the charge on enforcing copyright most of the time.

            It’s the “your internet could be disabled” scare tactics.

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      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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      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 🙄