beer Posted December 20, 2011 Share Posted December 20, 2011 Remember that Russian site that keeps track of all the torrents you've downloaded? If you do, you might also remember that several IPs originating from major film studios were caught illegally downloading materials. The hypocrisy reached a whole new level today, when illegal torrent downloads were traced to the RIAA and the Department of Homeland Security, as reported by TorrentFreak.The RIAA has joined the ranks of several major film studios by being implicated in piracy themselves. Being one of the biggest opponents of piracy – these are the people who want pirates banned from the web – and it comes as a bit of a surprise (or not) to learn that they have been illegally downloading Jay-Z and Kanye West albums. Any chance they had of passing it off as being for 'research purposes' was brutally murdered and unceremoniously disposed of when someone downloaded every episode of DEXTER.American taxpayers will be pleased to hear that the Department of Homeland Security is putting their dollars to good use. Besides using them to shut down dangerous threats to mankind like the torrent search engine Torrent-Finder, they were also caught red handedly engaging in some piracy of their own. In fact, some 900 unique IP addresses originating from the DHS. Either someone at the Department was engaging in a bit of not-so-legal goofing off on the job, or it's all part of a project to download and catalogue every torrent on the web, all bets being on the former.Maybe the RIAA should focus on weeding out piracy in their own office before they turn their attention to the world at large. You've got to wonder if the RIAA and DHS will end up facing the same penalties as everyone else if SOPA becomes law?(source)PWNED.NSFW:12/20/2011 Update:Report: Someone At The RIAA Downloaded $9 Million Worth Of Pirated Dexter EpisodesThe hallowed halls of the Recording Industry Association of America, where all music is bought at full price and never shared, lest people face violations of up to $150,000 per pirated item, has reportedly been infiltrated by ne'er-do-wells who think they can BitTorrent copyrighted material at work and not be caught.According to the folks at TorrentFreak, a check of the RIAA's IP addresses on YouHaveDownloaded.com show that someone at the association actually downloaded a torrent with the entire first five seasons of Dexter. Sixty episodes at $150,000 per violation would equal $9 million.There was also an episode of Law & Order: SVU that apparently went straight to an IP address at the RIAA, so slap on another $150,000.First off, who in the world uses BitTorrent on their work computer? Maybe the RIAA peeps took a lesson from the porn-happy folks at the SEC.Regardless, we're just glad this person didn't download the just-finished season of Dexter, because it was downright awful.(source) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alanon Posted December 20, 2011 Share Posted December 20, 2011 WOW! What a picture! :rofl: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beer Posted December 20, 2011 Author Share Posted December 20, 2011 Sorry folks, I apologize for posting the NSFW image without spoiler tags :shy: they will be appropriately tagged next time.@ Alanon & shought :cheers: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beer Posted December 20, 2011 Author Share Posted December 20, 2011 I am loving this :thumbsup:This is even better than recent Hollywood movies. What I want to see next is RIAA taking themselves to court and suing themselves for pirating. :cheers: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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