There are a ton of legitimately free IPTV streams. You can watch them through most media players like VLC without having to download anything shady.

https://github.com/iptv-org/iptv

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nvme0n1p1 42 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

Ok but have fun explaining that to the average person. Buying a dongle is easier than installing software or typing URLs into their TV ("my TV doesn't even have a keyboard").

To most people IPTV is a bunch of gibberish letters, indistinguishable from the gibberish brands on Amazon. Someone's grandma from Colorado doesn't deserve to get scammed because she didn't research the acronyms.

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kube-system 10 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-]

That is chock-full of pirated content.

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nuxi an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

Two things:

- How are these "legitimately free"? For example AMC is a commercial TV channel and as far as I know, they don't offer free streaming. Same goes for MGM, FilmBox etc.

- Strictly speaking this isn't IPTV, it's just web streams. IPTV is usually delivered via multicast (MPEG-TS/RTP/RTSP streams, over UDP mostly).

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