[rikafurude21]

These kind of pirated IPTV services are very popular in middle eastern countries. You message some guy on whatsapp, pay him a couple bucks and receive a link to an APK file + login info. The app gives you access to basically any channel in every country. They have to do everything through word of mouth because its high risk, obviously, and even in developed countries you can get sent to jail pretty quickly for running something like this. I was expecting esoteric OPSEC lessons from this post, because if thats not the highest priority, its pretty stupid to even consider doing this.

[lurk2]

> and even in developed countries you can get sent to jail pretty quickly for running something like this

This would only happen in developed countries. Nowhere else in the world cares about foreign copyrights being infringed.

[mlrtime]

This seems like common sense, when you're not fully developed, you spend time caring on the bottom of the necessity triangle, not the top.

MS knows this fairly well, and why they don't go after the low hanging pirates.

[gosub100]

It may not be the copyright they care about so much, but strict Muslim countries might find western shows criminally objectionable on moral grounds.

[mschuster91]

in what we would consider "non-developed countries", the powers-that-be might not care about copyrights, but about getting their cut/bakshish. Particularly the "illegal" world doesn't take kind to outside "invaders" making money on someone else's turf.

[JoeDohn]

it's the same thing in western Europe, piracy IPTV is a very popular thing since few years now, you get that through discord servers or really a simple query on aliexpress and you can buy a yearly account for 30$.

[mlrtime]

Have an example of a search term for non us content, or are they all worldwide with 1000s of channels?

I want one for my MIL who speaks a different language.

[Telaneo]

The goto options that are commonly recommended locally to me both have 40k+ channels, and if that doesn't include damn near every TV channel in existence that's still running, I'd be surprised. I'd imagine the IPTV pirates have no reason to limit the number of channels they can give you access too, since more = better, while trimming it down is just more work for the pirates, and getting access to every channel in the world is apparently not very difficult.

I'd imagine the situation is much the same in other places.

[JohnLocke4]

Good OPSEC is surprisingly simple and boring. Essentially, it just boils down to using tor and not accidentally exposing sensitive information, which is how Ross Ulbricht got caught. (okay, it is more than that but in essence it is true)

There are probably many people in prison right now because tor is awfully slow. If you don't have the patience for tor you probably also don't have the patience for prison.

[mlrtime]

Related https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45794455

Go to any local market place and you will see ads to buy these streaming sticks with everything setup for you, plug and play.