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Five Men Convicted of Operating Massive, Illegal Streaming Service That Allegedly Had More Content Than Netflix, Hulu, Vudu and Prime Video Combined (variety.com)
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[โ€“] sic_semper_tyrannis@lemmy.today 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

In addition to other things people responded with, piracy services tend to not collect users data or prevent us from watching with a VPN enabled.

[โ€“] Saik0Shinigami@lemmy.saik0.com 5 points 5 months ago

or prevent us from watching with a VPN enabled.

Man this one chaff's me the most. I way a paying Netflix customer like 8 years ago. I had IPv6 setup as a 6rd tunnel through HE (Hurricane Electric) because my ISP didn't offer IPv6. Netflix treated that as a VPN and blocked me as a paying customer... Even though I lived/payed from the same fucking locale. It's not like I was using a VPN to bypass a Geoblock. I was just making IPv6 available to myself. I cancelled because of that. You do not get to tell me how I access the internet at large, especially when I'm not even being shady about it.