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Re:UK national extradited to US for film/TV piracy by andy_ppp on Thursday September 02, 2021 @12:02AM (#28388530)
As long as nobody uses the credit card information to steal money then fine, otherwise you’re obviously doing something illegal (facilitating theft). To be honest though even then I think we should at this point require some sort of 2FA, maybe if doing such things (putting credit card numbers online) wasn’t illegal better protections would have to be implemented…
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Re:UK national extradited to US for film/TV piracy by piva00 on Thursday September 02, 2021 @08:30AM (#28391259)
My credit cards in Sweden have a form of 2FA through 3-D Secure + BankID, if a purchase for some reason scores poorly on fraud detection (large amount, unusual purchase, etc.) it will trigger a 2FA request on my BankID that I have to approve.
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Re:UK national extradited to US for film/TV piracy by tptacek on Thursday September 02, 2021 @12:07AM (#28388556)
Yes, the previous comment was clearly written and said the same thing. Hence my question.
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Re:UK national extradited to US for film/TV piracy by andy_ppp on Thursday September 02, 2021 @01:29AM (#28388944)
You’re misunderstanding what I’m saying; of course there would be consequences for doing the stupid straw man you’ve suggested, I just don’t believe unless you can prove harm (and piracy doesn’t cause anyone harm) you should be put in jail, let alone extradited.
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Re:UK national extradited to US for film/TV piracy by tptacek on Thursday September 02, 2021 @01:53AM (#28389084)
That wasn't the argument made upthread. That argument was an appeal to the fundamental nature of data, that its nature is to be copied. That's true of all data, not just the data you want to see copied.
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Re:UK national extradited to US for film/TV piracy by andy_ppp on Thursday September 02, 2021 @05:27AM (#28390107)
Yes, and there is credit card information leaked all the time correct? Making it illegal to copy credit card info has actually allowed banks to get away with an extremely insecure system of transferring money. Maybe it would be best if it were always legal to copy bits but the actual crimes were shown by the harms to other done.
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Re:UK national extradited to US for film/TV piracy by MichaelZuo on Thursday September 02, 2021 @10:18AM (#28392335)
I don’t think they’ve made it illegal to copy credit card info, since the manual machines are still in use by older folks and in some remote locations. This is in Canada and US, I’m not sure about banks in other places.
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