That command prompt.
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.
I despise vandalism, but sometimes I feel an exception can be made
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.
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.
OK this hilarious. Guess who owns this domain. It is Sky UK
Wonder how much of your personal data they have? 😆
Or how many times they’ve been hacked, or broke the law.
Sky are a bunch of bastards.
They were bought by Comcast a number of years ago, so they’re actually worse than before if you can believe it.
Legal Streams
Let Disney Kill your Family
C:> They could try to use terms and agreements to get away with murder.</
beFreePirate.fuincredibly disappointed that’s not a pirate streaming site
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?
legal streams already do
Technically the legal stream tell you.
Pretty much everything does, even your car will and I would totally download a car if I could.
please download an oil change first
My firewall is blocking that web server. Meaning they’re probably using it to host trackers…
That’s not really how that works.
If you wanted to “host a tracker” you wouldn’t do it from the same IP address you’re hosting Web pages on.
it’s either on the blacklist because it’s hosting a domain for 3rd party cookies or hosting advertisements. You’ve got to remember that from the perspective of these corpos, they’re not actually doing anything nefarious, and they can host multiple vhosts from the same IP. Now, I haven’t looked into it it’s being blocked by an IP blacklist at the firewall, or a DNS advertisement blacklist.
But in short, I disagree. It is how that works.
If you’re “hosting a tracker” you want an IP you can change as often as you like.
If you’re hosting a website you want an IP that never changes.
IPv6 is free and IPv4 is very cheap.
Even in the extraordinarily unlikely circumstance they really are hosting both on the same infrastructure, they aren’t going to use the same IP.
Let’s assume for the sake of argument that you’re right. The IP has never been used for anything nefarious, and it’s not being actively blacklisted. Oh my word! It suddenly started working! You fixed it :) thank you.
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.
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.
I’m not a vandal, but…
They could steal your personal data without you knowing
compared to legal sites stealing your personal data after telling you (it’s buried among the 100+ pages TOS you agreed to)
Legal stuff isn’t much better these days. Advertisements unless you pau more, user tracking regardless, etc.
Massive data collection and then getting hacked with no legal ramifications.
And even if there are legal ramifications. The fines are low enough that its a cost of doing business for the most part. Especially in comparison to the amount of money they make spying. Possibly on top of whatever else they sell depending on the business in question.
Most insidious part about the whole thing is the fact that most legal stuff is “licensed” rather than owned. A convenient legal fiction to allow them to revoke access at any time and (likely) keep your money.
How can I make this my prompt on
zsh?
Lmao they even have the pre-1800 British flag on their site.
