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- technology@lemmy.world
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It’s not theft. It’s copying or copyright infringement.
If it was theft, the owners wouldn’t have it anymore.
The words matter because they change your moral intuition about it.
Dodgy boxes have been a massive thing here, and there’s so much fearmongering in the news about how they’ll steal your internet, bank details and firstborn child, when they’re literally just amazon firesticks with some apks on them.
yeah, theyre really perfect for the average person who doesnt know shit about piracy
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It would be nice if I could know how to use these services without some “box” or “app”
The article explains that the key services are tied to the hardware & probably controlled (with an attempt at plausible deniability) by the hardware vendors.
Guess someone now needs to come up with a a way to pirate these pirate services 😁
The Verge needs to stop making articles like this.
Fucking idiots want to ruin a good thing
… Or they’re trying to?
Yeah, it feels like a “loose lips sink ships” situation… But on the other side of the same coin, there’s no way the TV providers were ignorant of this. They undoubtedly already knew, so it’s not like this article is going to bring anything new to light. If anything, it may put a target on the backs of some of the people who were quoted in the article for litigation, but that’s not going to actually stop the boxes from being sold in the long term.
Way ahead of you here. Stopped watching TV entirely in the early 1990s.
