James Cridland on Nostr: Fetch TV - an Aussie hybrid streaming/OTA television box - was bought by Telstra a ...
Fetch TV - an Aussie hybrid streaming/OTA television box - was bought by Telstra a little bit ago. Today, I'm told that in order to use the old box that I bought a while back, I now have to pay $29.99 in some form of blackmail payment. "Nice box. Shame if anything happened to it".
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