Busted: BitTorrent Pirates at Sony, Universal and Fox

Earlier this week, a website called YouHaveDownloaded.com went viral. YouHaveDownloaded.com checks your ip address, then shows you your download history. The popular torrent blog, TorrentFreak, got a hold of YouHaveDownloaded.com’s logs. By cross-comparing those logs with its own records, TorrentFreak discovered that many people who work in the entertainment industry are actively using BitTorrent to violate copyright law.

Hypocrites.

TorrentFreak found employees at Fox Entertainment illegally downloading a competitor’s film — Super 8. They also found employees at Sony’s South Florida office illegally downloading dubstep and trance music. So Sony execs enjoy listening to electronic music, but not paying for it. Sorry, Beatport!

TorrentFreak:

Armed with the IP-ranges of major Hollywood studios we decided to find out what they’ve been downloading. As expected, it didn’t take us long before we found BitTorrent ‘pirates’ at several leading entertainment industry companies. Yes, these are the same companies who want to disconnect people from the Internet after they’ve been caught sharing copyrighted material. »»

(Source: mediagazer.com)

No Copyright Intended

Andy Baio:

What happens when — and this is inevitable — a generation completely comfortable with remix culture becomes a majority of the electorate, instead of the fringe youth? What happens when they start getting elected to office? (Maybe “I downloaded, but didn’t share” will be the new “I smoked, but didn’t inhale.”) »»

(Source: techmeme.com)