RIAA and Homeland Security Caught Downloading Torrents

[Jesse]

RIAA and Homeland Security Caught Downloading Torrents

If there’s one organization known for its crusade against online piracy, it’s the RIAA. Nevertheless, even in the RIAA’s headquarters several people use BitTorrent to download pirated music, movies, TV-shows and software. And they are in good company. The Department of Homeland Security – known for seizing pirate domain names – also harbors hundreds of BitTorrent pirates.

Last week we wrote about a new website that exposes what people behind an IP-address have downloaded using BitTorrent. The Russian-based founders of the site gathered this data from public BitTorrent trackers, much like anti-piracy outfits do when they track down copyright infringers.

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Seems like they could just be testing the content though...

Jesse Reviewed by Jesse on 20th Dec 2011. RIAA and Homeland Security Caught Downloading Torrents RIAA and Homeland Security Caught Downloading Torrents If there’s one organization known for its crusade against online piracy, it’s the RIAA. Nevertheless, even in the RIAA’s headquarters several people use BitTorrent to download pirated music, movies, TV-shows and software. And they are in good company. The Department of Homeland Security – known for seizing pirate domain names – also harbors hundreds of BitTorrent pirates. Last week we wrote about a new website that exposes what people Rating: 5

[foxman]

lol!

[rko]

Seems like they could just be testing the content though...

i hope so too
but i dont think so probably couple of stupid staff members were being "smart" and trying to get free stuffs via super fast internet lol yeah you find those type of smart pplz in every single organization *sigh*

[YouCantStopWhatImThinking]

aww tough times over at the riaa