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The internet provider on my dorm explicitly allows legal torrents (infosec.pub)

submitted 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) by user224@lemmy.sdf.org to c/mildlyinteresting@lemmy.world

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[–] ArsonButCute@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Pretty sure they were fired for engaging in illegal activities on their work hardware, not for torrenting on a network that couldn't handle it.

If it were a Linux ISO I'm sure it would have been a slap on the wrist and a "hey don't do that again our network can't handle it" but it was a film, Something the company can (theoretically) get in trouble for

[–] titanicx@lemmy.zip 2 points 3 weeks ago

Yeah we did have instruction place to be able to do legal torrents. Our programmers and IT department often downloaded ISO images firmware etc that were only available by a torrent.