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[–] [email protected] 90 points 1 month ago (14 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 month ago (5 children)

people being arrested for using pirate streaming services

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

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago (2 children)

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?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

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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