That command prompt.
“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.
The C: prompt let’s you know they mean business
They could steal your personal data without you knowing.
Hah! Like the “legal” services are much better than that!
Shoutout to Sony BMG putting rootkits in legally bought CDs.
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.
It’s 507 paragraphs long and written in a mix of German and Esperanto but yeah, it’s right there! Clear as day!
C:\> They could steal your personal data without you knowing. </ At line:1 char:57 + They could steal your personal data without you knowing. </ + ~ The '<' operator is reserved for future use. + CategoryInfo : ParserError: (:) [], ParentContainsErrorRecordException + FullyQualifiedErrorId : RedirectionNotSupportedIt’s actually
C:/>just to fuck your shit up.Well of course it errors out, you’re using powershell rather than DOS
C:\> They could steal your personal data without you knowing. </Access is denied.Proof my data is safe!
Last time I tried to stream a hockey game legally it just wouldn’t ever load. I went back to the pirate stream.
You probably had to be using a Smart™ TV so they could steal your personal data.
You should use legal streams that you pay for so you know they’re stealing your personal data!
does this mean if I pay for streaming my privacy will be respected
You dropped this - /s
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Huh, I didn’t think emojis would be italicized. Interesting.
- Normal: 🤔
- Italicized: 🤔
- Bold: 🤔
- Strikethrough:
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Devs, we need bold emojis stat. Fennec people, get on it !
Why the fuck do these exist? 💁♂️
standardization
They don’t show up italicised for me (iOS)
Did you ask Tim Cook for permission before trying that ?
Yep
Found the Russian bot. /s
They show up italicized for me, iOS Thunder app
i love this so much
To ask…
Sweet summer child
You wouldn’t download a torrent
I downloaded 2 seasons of 1 tv show and 3 seasons of another in the last month, but I used direct download.
So, no. I wouldn’t.
remembers the repacks from 3 weeks ago
Nevermind.
Yes, and those have the good stuff
How can I make this my prompt on
zsh?You don’t use the
C:/> </terminal prefix and suffix prompt on your smartphone?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.
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 🙄
Yup! The fact that it is defined as “illegal” allows goons to storm your house and court troll to harrass you.
Thus everything they say is true, in some way…
And it’s not even illegal in the sense most people think of, it’s a copyright violation. Which is a regulatory thing, not a criminal law thing.
Given the cops can show up and harrass you in the UK it might be an actual criminal offence at this point over there.
Don’t do illegal drugs, kids! You could get in trouble, because they’re illegal.
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.
I feel like it isn’t? Like isn’t that just false advertising?
Zero sympathy for the phone zombies that saw a random code and decided to pursue it uncritically. Streamwise are pretty awesome trolls apparently.
people being arrested for using pirate streaming services
What circumstances does that even happen in? Like a bar that plays a pirated sports stream?
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?
I’d be skeptical that’s even real, outside of a select few countries with especially strict copyright enforcement
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.
Theres firestick apps that stream all the regular channels, plus all the premium channels. (HBO, showtime, stars, ppv, etc) Essentially for $10 - $20 a month you get the best, most decked out cable package one could buy. You may or may not have access to all the new and old movies, TV shows (from all the platforms), and porn, on demand, as well. Maybe like that?
That doesn’t sound like something you get arrested for though
as opposed to the legal services where youre forced to hand it over along with paying exorbitant prices for a tiny catalogue
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.
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.
But this is paying for a service that’s used to obtain content, not directly for the content
And you can pay with crypto, not providing any personal information at all
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?
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
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
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?
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.
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
They could steal your personal data without you knowing.
So very ironic when it’s the opposite between them.
