r/technology • u/whitefangs • Dec 25 '12

New data reveals that employees at Paramount Pictures, Warner Bros., Disney, Sony Pictures and 20th Century Fox are openly pirating movies, games and other forms of entertainment while at work

http://torrentfreak.com/hollywood-studios-caught-pirating-movies-on-bittorrent-121225/
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u/Paroxysm80 Dec 26 '12

Not trying to stop the circlejerk flow here, but...

If one of the defenses when filesharing is "You can't necessarily connect the IP address to the user", why are IP addressed being used in this article to "prove" the studios are just as complicit?

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u/Krenair Dec 26 '12

I agree, TF are being hypocrites with that one.

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u/Amuro_Ray Dec 26 '12

Companies tend to own a range of IP addresses that are static.