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Re:You can watch Pluto TV in VLC, and the MPA considers this... by pizzaknife on Wednesday March 01, 2023 @06:32AM (#34981183)
im sure the takedown ended up adding to a charted metric, buried in a division quarterly ppt. Piracy is a stretch, at best its perhaps digital trespass(insofar as if youre not using the pluto site they are losing that delicious user data) and thus in breach of some EULA that absolutely no one but paramount is aware of
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Re:You can watch Pluto TV in VLC, and the MPA considers this... by detrites on Wednesday March 01, 2023 @07:38AM (#34981696)
Plus, it's likely the Streisand Effect is in now full force and they actually have increased this kind of activity not just for themselves, but for anyone else with a similar, oddly inviting setup.
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Re:You can watch Pluto TV in VLC, and the MPA considers this... by kgwxd on Wednesday March 01, 2023 @08:11AM (#34981990)
Piracy is a stretch unless it refers to violence on the ocean.
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Re:You can watch Pluto TV in VLC, and the MPA considers this... by viciousvoxel on Wednesday March 01, 2023 @08:56AM (#34982421)
FWIW privateering was violent, on the ocean, and legal
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