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anyone else got a amazon fire tv stick jailbroken?
#23699926 - 10/02/16 11:28 AM (7 years, 3 months ago) |
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Re: anyone else got a amazon fire tv stick jailbroken? [Re: hellno]
#23699938 - 10/02/16 11:32 AM (7 years, 3 months ago) |
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Yeah I mean the problem with that is if it stops working you're SOL, but on the other hand at the cost of cable it wouldn't have to work long for it to pay for itself.
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Re: anyone else got a amazon fire tv stick jailbroken? [Re: moonrockmushy]
#23699952 - 10/02/16 11:37 AM (7 years, 3 months ago) |
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I wonder if any cable companies are gonna sue? Because this has to hurt their business.
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Re: anyone else got a amazon fire tv stick jailbroken? [Re: hellno]
#23700189 - 10/02/16 01:11 PM (7 years, 3 months ago) |
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Yeah I know they used to take "black boxes" pretty seriously back in the day. It's kind of a step beyond just pirating software, using their own hardware against them.
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Re: anyone else got a amazon fire tv stick jailbroken? [Re: hellno]
#23700330 - 10/02/16 01:44 PM (7 years, 3 months ago) |
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so how this works is some guy buys some premium package streaming video device, he subscribes to everything available such as hulu and netflix, he then buys shitloads of these dongles and boxes and clones them to make it appear that it's one device connecting to the services and then sells the cloned devices, now he's out the cost of the subscriptions but he's selling a device that wholesales for about $15 and knocking down about $60 a unit, with 5000 of these units sold he's pulling down $300k so sticking a lifetime subscription on these sites isnt much at that point and as technology progresses he can sell new devices on the same gimmick every few years
it's really a brilliant scheme until folks like netflix or amazon decide to stop it, the can limit the number of connections per account to their claimed maximum of 4 and that cuts out a lot of people that bought the dongles
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Re: anyone else got a amazon fire tv stick jailbroken? [Re: Prisoner#1]
#23700345 - 10/02/16 01:48 PM (7 years, 3 months ago) |
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idkn yet if that's how it works.. i'm gonna see what the deal is when I get it..something to do with software that's been installed though that makes it free through kodi not copied accounts
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Re: anyone else got a amazon fire tv stick jailbroken? [Re: hellno]
#23700487 - 10/02/16 02:39 PM (7 years, 3 months ago) |
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Re: anyone else got a amazon fire tv stick jailbroken? [Re: Prisoner#1]
#23700519 - 10/02/16 02:48 PM (7 years, 3 months ago) |
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yeah but is it actually using someone elses account?
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Re: anyone else got a amazon fire tv stick jailbroken? [Re: hellno]
#23700520 - 10/02/16 02:49 PM (7 years, 3 months ago) |
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hellno said: just ordered this
http://www.ebay.com/itm/AMAZON-FIRE-TV-STICK-JAILBROKEN-XBMC-KODI-16-1-MOVIES-PPV-XXX-FULLY-LOADED-/262507436937?hash=item3d1ea99b89:g:ShMAAOSw-KFXe~A0
apparently you can get all live tv through kodi free and replace cable t.v cant wait to find out.. a big eff you to comcast if so..
Niicee!! We use tht here at my place. I just recently jail broke mine. A few months ago. It's, hard AF to do, but well worth it! Even movies in the theatre can be watched
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Re: anyone else got a amazon fire tv stick jailbroken? [Re: Prisoner#1]
#23700541 - 10/02/16 02:56 PM (7 years, 3 months ago) |
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I dont think it works like that. Just some extra android software installed to the stick that lets you access free streams online.
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Re: anyone else got a amazon fire tv stick jailbroken? [Re: Fantastic Mr. Fox]
#23700544 - 10/02/16 02:56 PM (7 years, 3 months ago) |
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awesome! didn't know that.. is "the movies in theatre" through kodi or another app?
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Re: anyone else got a amazon fire tv stick jailbroken? [Re: hellno]
#23700621 - 10/02/16 03:20 PM (7 years, 3 months ago) |
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there's alot of others like wookie wizard etc.
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Re: anyone else got a amazon fire tv stick jailbroken? [Re: Fantastic Mr. Fox]
#23700637 - 10/02/16 03:25 PM (7 years, 3 months ago) |
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Fantastic Mr. Fox said: there's alot of others like wookie wizard etc.
you recommend any other's I should get?
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Re: anyone else got a amazon fire tv stick jailbroken? [Re: Prisoner#1]
#23700670 - 10/02/16 03:36 PM (7 years, 3 months ago) |
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Prisoner#1 said: so how this works is some guy buys some premium package streaming video device, he subscribes to everything available such as hulu and netflix, he then buys shitloads of these dongles and boxes and clones them to make it appear that it's one device connecting to the services and then sells the cloned devices, now he's out the cost of the subscriptions but he's selling a device that wholesales for about $15 and knocking down about $60 a unit, with 5000 of these units sold he's pulling down $300k so sticking a lifetime subscription on these sites isnt much at that point and as technology progresses he can sell new devices on the same gimmick every few years
it's really a brilliant scheme until folks like netflix or amazon decide to stop it, the can limit the number of connections per account to their claimed maximum of 4 and that cuts out a lot of people that bought the dongles
Theres a way around that too I imagine. Some sort of mirroring system would prevent them from detecting it.
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Re: anyone else got a amazon fire tv stick jailbroken? [Re: hellno]
#23700697 - 10/02/16 03:45 PM (7 years, 3 months ago) |
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hellno said: yeah but is it actually using someone elses account?
it\s exactly using someone elses account
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