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While Drafting SOPA, The U.S. House Harbors BitTorrent Pirates
[font size=4]While Drafting SOPA, The U.S. House Harbors BitTorrent Pirates[/font]
TorrentFreak.com
By Ernesto
December 26, 2011
In recent weeks we discovered BitTorrent pirates at the RIAA, Sony, Fox, Universal and even law-abiding organizations such as the Department of Homeland Security. By now it should be clear that people are using BitTorrent pretty much everywhere, and not only for lawful downloads. Today we can add the U.S. House of Representatives to that list, the place where lawmakers are drafting the much discussed “Stop Online Piracy Act” (SOPA).
YouHaveDownloaded is a treasure trove full of incriminating data on alleged BitTorrent pirates in organizations all across the world. Unauthorized downloads occur even in the most unexpected of places, from the palace of the French President, via the Church of God, to the RIAA.
Although we don’t plan to go on forever trawling the archives, we felt that there was at least one place that warranted further investigation – the U.S. House of Representatives. Since it’s the birthplace of the pending SOPA bill, we wondered how many of the employees there have engaged in unauthorized copying. The answer is yet again unambiguous – they pirate a lot.
In total we found more than 800 IP-addresses assigned to the U.S. House of Representatives from where content has been shared on BitTorrent. After a closer inspection it quickly became clear the House isn’t just using it for legitimate downloads either, quite the opposite.
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TorrentFreak.com
By Ernesto
December 26, 2011
In recent weeks we discovered BitTorrent pirates at the RIAA, Sony, Fox, Universal and even law-abiding organizations such as the Department of Homeland Security. By now it should be clear that people are using BitTorrent pretty much everywhere, and not only for lawful downloads. Today we can add the U.S. House of Representatives to that list, the place where lawmakers are drafting the much discussed “Stop Online Piracy Act” (SOPA).
YouHaveDownloaded is a treasure trove full of incriminating data on alleged BitTorrent pirates in organizations all across the world. Unauthorized downloads occur even in the most unexpected of places, from the palace of the French President, via the Church of God, to the RIAA.
Although we don’t plan to go on forever trawling the archives, we felt that there was at least one place that warranted further investigation – the U.S. House of Representatives. Since it’s the birthplace of the pending SOPA bill, we wondered how many of the employees there have engaged in unauthorized copying. The answer is yet again unambiguous – they pirate a lot.
In total we found more than 800 IP-addresses assigned to the U.S. House of Representatives from where content has been shared on BitTorrent. After a closer inspection it quickly became clear the House isn’t just using it for legitimate downloads either, quite the opposite.
MORE
[font color=blue] - When the cork finally pops, they'll swear they hadn't a clue as to why.........[/font]
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[font color=darkred]``Government is not reason, it is not eloquence. It is force.`` ~George Washington[/font]
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"Hi. We have no records on you."
Still in the clear... 
...don't use torrents much. 
I ain't 'fraid of no big brother!
- In our NEW Fascist State......
"'Conspiracy stuff' is now shorthand for unspeakable truth." ~Gore Vidal
Amazing, some of us, I would guess MOST of us are not bit torrent participants. But these guys, who want to pass laws to regulate what they are doing... are doing what they want to pass laws to prevent.
The Congress owes me an irony meter.
That, and George Orwell's ''1984.''
- For pointers......
