Telegram is the hot new source for pirated content
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Telegram is the hot new source for pirated content
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#2First time I have ever seen this actually being discussed online.
Twenty or so of my friends of friends use Telegram. None of them use it for mundane things such as chatting. You name the content, you have a channel for it, ergo you have direct download links for it.
But how is this any worse than downloading illegal content through torrents (TPB et al.)?
EDIT: Should have worded this more correctly. I am not a participant in pirating stuff through Telegram, my friends are; I use it for Android stuff (Substratum, custom ROM support, etc.).
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#3Any Channel recs? Is there anything that’s hard to get through the standard means?
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#4Visiting this article prompted my virus scanner to protect me from a bitcoin miner trojan.
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#5Here's a [video](https://twitter.com/refsrc/status/984643353768685568) -- by the reporter who wrote the story -- which shows the widespread of the issue.
Re: Telegram is the hot new source for pirated content
#6First time I have ever seen this actually being discussed online. Twenty or so of my friends of friends use Telegram. None of them use it for mundane things such as chatting. You name the content, you have a channel for it, ergo you have direct download links for it. But how is this any worse than downloading illegal content through torrents (TPB et al.)? EDIT: Should have worded this more correctly. I am not a parti…
> Twenty or so of my friends of friends use Telegram. None of them use it for mundane things such as chatting.
Alternate anecdata: twenty or so of my friends use Telegram. All of them use it for mundane things† such as chatting, none for piracy. It hasn't even crossed the mind.
† We use it as an alternative to Facebook/Facebook groups/Instagram/Messenger.
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#8Here's a [video]( https://twitter.com/refsrc/status/984643353768685568 ) -- by the reporter who wrote the story -- which shows the widespread of the issue.
"issue"
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#9First time I have ever seen this actually being discussed online. Twenty or so of my friends of friends use Telegram. None of them use it for mundane things such as chatting. You name the content, you have a channel for it, ergo you have direct download links for it. But how is this any worse than downloading illegal content through torrents (TPB et al.)? EDIT: Should have worded this more correctly. I am not a parti…
> Twenty or so of my friends of friends use Telegram. None of them use it for mundane things such as chatting. Alternate anecdata: twenty or so of my friends use Telegram. All of them use it for mundane things† such as chatting, none for piracy. It hasn't even crossed the mind. † We use it as an alternative to Facebook/Facebook groups/Instagram/Messenger.
The only thing I've done on telegram remotely related to piracy was moving a (admitedly torrented) video from one machine to another.
Use it daily for communication
Re: Telegram is the hot new source for pirated content
#10Telegram condones piracy to boost their growth. Simple as that.