If you're thinking about linking to a file-sharing streaming movie website,

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2. Yes, that's another risk of using illegal file-sharing sites.

You may well not know what is being put on your hard drive. Those sites are doing illegal things, so why would people think that streaming movies is the only illegal thing they do? Good point.

Any time you give a site permission to send things to your computer you put yourself at risk. If you stick with trustworthy, legal sites, you'll usually be fine, although not always. Some websites that are otherwise OK might download malware on your computer, even without knowing they're doing it. But you can protect against that with malware blockers.

People who do illegal things often do more than one kind of illegal things. It comes with the territory.