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Full list of areas in the UK targeted in ‘dodgy’ Fire TV stick crackdown (metro.co.uk)
submitted 1 year ago by to c/technology@lemmy.world
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Hopefully nobody tells them about the raspberry pi..

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[–] 22 points 1 year ago

The UK is such a mess, as a country. It always was, but since Brexit, it's gone downhill even further.

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    [–] 28 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Oi! Do you have a license for that tv stick?

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    I remember a Scottish lady telling us in the ’90s about how they had vans that would drive around to find illegal TVs and the whole thing was just mind-boggling to me!

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago*

    In Norway you could make good money as an antenna port removal person, essentially filling it with solder or some such, and making paperwork confirming it had been done.

    If you had that piece of paper you didn't have to pay licensing fees, as it was tied to the antenna port. Funnily enough most everyone with a top box used the scart for television, so it didn't really make a difference.

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    • [–] 26 points 1 year ago*

    What the fuck? They're raiding people's homes for using jailbroken TV sticks? The UK is so, unbelievably cooked

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    [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    Receiving a cease and desist email from your ISP on behalf of rights holders for something you have torrented is almost a right of passage for a young person imo.

    Makes you learn to always use a VPN, especially on popular torrents (all it takes is one snooper in the seeds).

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