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My friend won't pirate movies for security purposes (hexbear.net)

submitted 2 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I've got a friend I know from college. We where gonna do a movie night and I offered her access to my server that contains all my very legally attained media.

Said she'll have to decline because of "security concerns with work and everything". Apparently if she watches Shakma the dastardly Chinese spies will steal company secrets.

The absolute state of Americans.

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 days ago (1 children)

That or they just have some sort of philosophical aversion to piracy but don't want to say that so made up an excuse.

But I've also met too many people who are technically very educated who don't understand basic things. Who would totally believe that watching a movie like that could lead to the police raiding them.

I've seen programmers, lead programmers, professors who don't understand Windows settings or how to set up a home network or VPN or do advanced troubleshooting of an OS or hardware problem. They have very narrow skill-sets, they're not enthusiasts in computers like some stereotypical 90s nerd who poke around and truly understand all aspects of it, they're just people who work on them and have some knowledge to do specific things and think that makes them hot shit.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 days ago

Gotta agree with that all. People being good at one thing does not make em experts in everything else. Even related fields.

That or they just have some sort of philosophical aversion to piracy but don't want to say that so made up an excuse.

Definitely wondering this myself. All my other friends are like ohh yes please link to server please.