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At a previous job, I was downloading daily legal torrent data when IT flagged me. The IT admin, eager to catch me doing something wrong, burst into the room sho

by joao 1y ago

At a previous job, I was downloading daily legal torrent data when IT flagged me. The IT admin, eager to catch me doing something wrong, burst into the room shouting with management in tow. I had to calmly explain the situation, as management assumed all torrenting was illegal and there had been previous legal issues with an intern pirating movies. Fortunately, other colleagues backed me up.

Yoric 1y ago
Hey, ages ago, as an intern, I have been flagged for BitTorrent downloads. As it turned out, I was downloading/sharing Ubuntu isos, so things didn't escalate too far, but it was a scary moment. So, I'm not using BT at work anymore.
- Symbiote 1y ago
  I left a Linux ISO (possibly Ubuntu) seeding on a lab computer at university, and forgot about it after I'd burned the DVD. You can see this was a while ago. A month later an IT admin came to ask what I might be doing with port 6881. Once I remembered, we went to the tracker's website and saw "imperial.ac.uk" had the top position for seeding, by far. The admin said to leave running.
  - account42 1y ago
    > The admin said to leave running. This can be read in two wildly different ways.
    - Symbiote 1y ago
      Fortunately, it was the nice way — that university is one of the backbone nodes of the UK academic network, so the bandwidth use was pretty much irrelevant.
belter 1y ago
S3 had BitTorrent support for a long time... "S3 quietly deprecates BitTorrent support" - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27524549 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27524549