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Illegal Streams Let Criminals In (lemmy.federate.cc)
submitted 2 years ago by to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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[–] 60 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 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.

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  • [–] 27 points 2 years ago (2 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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  • [–] 11 points 2 years ago

    I agree i should have used different words, scam-ableism is counter productive to educate about traps.

    I am pretty sure my dad fell for one of these because an ad popt up trying to pay a digital parking meter.

    Though he wasn’t trying to get access to illegal content what people behind this campaign are alluding towards.

    Scams come in so many shapes and forms, there is accidental click and there is “looked like an official Netflix page”. How many people will knowingly pay for something they know is available for free?

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    the way we share payment info to sites is so backwards is the reason despite all the problems paypal had, it still provide a lot of value.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago

    PayPal is nice since it gives virtually zero trust to the seller to secure customer info. But as you alluded to, PayPal has lots of problems mostly stemming from it trying to get all of the benefits of being a bank while accepting none of the responsibility of being a bank, and therefore customers receive none of the benefits of a bank while still getting all of the drawbacks of another entity handling their money

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  • [–] 11 points 2 years 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.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

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

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

    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?

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years 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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