A traveling salesman just got a family member of mine to buy a Magg TV player for $250. Evidently, he had a TV on his truck, which showed him getting Netflix and a bunch of other channels for free. Has anyone heard of this?
Originally posted by Ackks: A traveling salesman just got a family member of mine to buy a Magg TV player for $250. Evidently, he had a TV on his truck, which showed him getting Netflix and a bunch of other channels for free. Has anyone heard of this?
Maybe I am confused, but I always thought that NetFlix was a subscription service. If my understanding is correct, it would seem like if one is actually getting NetFlix free one is pirating. I’ve been wrong before though...
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Maybe I am confused, but I always thought that NetFlix was a subscription service. If my understanding is correct, it would seem like if one is actually getting NetFlix free one is pirating. I’ve been wrong before though...
I'm with you. Anything that seems to good to be true...
There are any number of set-top boxes, most based on Android, available that enable free or low-cost content. The source is often a service that is no offered at no cost. I don't know that the publishers of the proprietary content are doing much to recover their "lost" fees.
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I have a friend who modified their Amazon box with Kodi and all went great for a very short time until he discovered that he had to keep changing/updating repositories to be able to see/get content and even then had some bad buffering issues.
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Originally posted by Ackks: A traveling salesman just got a family member of mine to buy a Magg TV player for $250. Evidently, he had a TV on his truck, which showed him getting Netflix and a bunch of other channels for free. Has anyone heard of this?
I don’t get out much, but this has the aroma of a scam to me. Did the salesman also have a freezer full of “steaks” on his truck for sale?
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Magg TV is a streaming box like Roku, Apple TV or Amazon Firestick. The streaming services like Netflix, Amazon Prime, Hulu, etc. are not free or included with the box. It's an Android based streamer that can probably be 'jailbroken' so you can play pirated streams. You'd have to do a little more digging to find out exactly what they bought and what they were promised. Here is Magg TV's website: https://www.maggtv.com/product...egory/media-players/
(deepocean dropped the link while I was typing )
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A streaming player through which one can get services one subscribes/pays for, I understand.
A streaming box which gets every paid channel for one fixed fee, legally, I have not heard of.
I'm not sure what "jailbroken" means. Wouldn't the paid services or the internet provider be able to detect if someone hacked the encryption? One would think they would have a lot of incentive to track down such devices by any means possible.
Originally posted by deepocean: A streaming player through which one can get services one subscribes/pays for, I understand.
A streaming box which gets every paid channel for one fixed fee, legally, I have not heard of.
I'm not sure what "jailbroken" means. Wouldn't the paid services or the internet provider be able to detect if someone hacked the encryption? One would think they would have a lot of incentive to track down such devices by any means possible.
There's a whole underground industry pirating streams. Many of them 'look' legit, but they are all illegal (in the US) and operate offshore. It's a deep, dark rabbit hole Alice
My mother in law bought a jailbroken FireStick that allowed her to get most any channel she wanted and movies that were just released at the box office. She got it from a Craigslist ad and had no idea that it was pirated streams or illegal.
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