Downloading free? The cops are coming

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sharktale1212 said:
What was guy thinking doing it on office computer. Still dont many companies block such sites.
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A torrent aggregator site is nothing much to block in an office. It can also be used to download some legal distributions, though outnumbered by illegal ones.

Just downloading the torrent file is not the problem, it's perfectly legal. Downloading the copyrighted file which the torrent links to through its hash is illegal.

And also, blocking just some sites won't work in an office environment, and banning torrent clients too is m00t as even browsers can have those facilities added on. It's better to have a policy in place and let the employees know that doing shit in the office would be punishable.
 
blkrb0t said:
A torrent aggregator site is nothing much to block in an office. It can also be used to download some legal distributions, though outnumbered by illegal ones.

Just downloading the torrent file is not the problem, it's perfectly legal. Downloading the copyrighted file which the torrent links to through its hash is illegal.

And also, blocking just some sites won't work in an office environment, and banning torrent clients too is m00t as even browsers can have those facilities added on. It's better to have a policy in place and let the employees know that doing shit in the office would be punishable.
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Many companies block it and monitor the traffic minutely. Most companies have IE as default and disable options/installation so no more browser or the add-ons. So yes it will work and it does work.
As for legal distribution,when I said companies block such websites I meant generic torrent sites --nothing to do with legal/illegal distribution. When I joined back in 2007, my company a bank used to allow downloads via megaupload/rapidshare and torrents etc...legal/illegal dint matter. Over the time as it grew, it couldnt sustain the traffic and was forced to block these websites. Hence, the basis
 
using company internet to download personal stuff is stupid. usually companies have static ip addresses assigned to them since they are heavy data users. best option would be to stay away from downloading any indian movies or music on such systems.
 
These police don't care a damn if you download any random TV show or a game and have problems only when you download hindi or some much anticipated or hit regional movie or Indian music.
 
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If the Police is really monitoring the internet download pattern, then how they have missed the DC++ LAN files. I have seen people sharing TBs of pron.
 
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