RIAA and Homeland Security Caught Downloading Torrents
Found on TorrentFreak on Tuesday, 20 December 2011
Even in the RIAA’s headquarters several people use BitTorrent to download pirated music, movies, TV-shows and software. And they are in good company. The Department of Homeland Security – known for seizing pirate domain names – also harbors hundreds of BitTorrent pirates.
Earlier this week we already showed that there are BitTorrent pirates at Sony, Universal and Fox. A few days later it was revealed that torrents are being downloaded in the palace of French President Nicholas Sarkozy.
Aside from recent music albums from Jay-Z and Kanye West – which may have been downloaded for research purposes – RIAA staff also pirated the first five seasons of Dexter, an episode of Law and Order SVU, and a pirated audio converter and MP3 tagger.
How much was it? $150,000 per infringement and disconnection from the Internet? Or is it "do as I say, don't do as I do"? If their defense is saying that this is just an error, how come those accused by the RIAA are not allowed to use this argument?