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Ha there is no way that 99% of the world population know what to do with those links / hashes / whatever they are.
by adwww 4y ago
Ha there is no way that 99% of the world population know what to do with those links / hashes / whatever they are.
- kinleyd 4y agoYou'd be surprised.
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- rmbyrro 4y agoThey'll have ChatGPT sort it for them.
- letmevoteplease 4y agoperfect https://i.imgur.com/unlePgu.jpg https://i.imgur.com/unlePgu.jpg
- capableweb 4y agoThat's true, but if they know/learn, they will be able to get it, one way or another, and they don't have to be in the UK :)
- vidarh 4y agoMaybe not, but the subset of the 99% that are on HN are far more likely to know what to do with them or how to find it out.
- CalRobert 4y agoBut a lot of them will be able to find out if they care to learn.
- pessimizer 4y agoThey'll obviously have better luck with them than with BBC iPlayer, for which they would need the knowledge and ability to set up a British VPN.
- toyg 4y agoAnd lie about holding a valid UK TV license.
- dec0dedab0de 4y agoI thought you were right at first, but with commercial VPNs constantly be advertised as a way to get around content restrictions, I wouldn't be surprised if more people understood a VPN than a torrent these days. Assuming they're willing to pay that is.
- pessimizer 4y ago"Understood" is different from "can afford" and "has the ability to purchase," and definitely different from "will subscribe to an otherwise useless British VPN in order to watch two hours of television."
- fomine3 4y agoMost such VPN providers have servers on multiple location. UK is very popular location so just connect to it if you already paid for VPN. I think some people already paid for VPN as I can see YouTuber's ads.
- davchana 4y agoAgree. I don't want to use a free VPN, and I don't want to oay for VPN. I also want to own my copy.
- aliqot 4y agoare you perhaps a teen? that's a magnet link, its used to transfer things via bittorrent. we used to put them in the spokes of our bicycles when we'd ride down to the five-and-dime
- wil421 4y agoWhen I was riding bikes to the store we had dialup and floppies were giving way to CDs. It’s been over a decade since I’ve used BitTorrent and I didn’t know magnet links were still popular. I hate seeding and there was also a lot of malware hidden in public trackers. Once I switched to Usenet I never looked back. P2P file sharing has never been a good experience for me.
- ryandrake 4y agoHow does one get malware from playing a .mkv or .mp4 video file?
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- Laaas 4y agoA sophisticated attacker could make use of bugs in the player to hack the system. This sort of trick is often used against high value targets where the effort needed makes it worth it.
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- Loughla 4y agoWhy do I feel like the people downloading ConAir(1997)YIFYWEB-DLs.MKV are not high value targets?
- chongli 4y agoWhy does the video player have the capability to do anything other than read video files the user specifies through the system file chooser dialog and play them on the screen?
- MobiusHorizons 4y agoThey are pretty obviously magnet links, which are used for torrenting. I expect lots of people are familiar with them.