One of the most enduring online movie scams involves sites that claim to offer premium content, but turn out to be some type of scam. These services do not discriminate, so whether 'customers' are pirates or just regular people hoping to buy content, everyone is a potential victim. The scam has been running for at least 20 years yet, seemingly out of nowhere, pro site-blocking studies now describe it as a major piracy-related security threat.

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[–] sneezycat@sopuli.xyz 29 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Piracy is sharing, asking for money is always a scam. If you're paying, pay the authorized distributors.

[–] tom_was_taken@lemmynsfw.com 7 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

There are non-scam, usually private services that provide pirated content for a small fee in exchange for a much more convenient way of getting content.

Like, a service that gets you real 4K, HDR10, DoVi, whatever with all the different languages and also all in your one favourite TV app of choice. No region lock, no ads, too.

As all that streaming should have been from the beginning.

I see why they ask money and have no problem with paying for such service. They do have to pay for storage and bandwidth somehow.