Hollywood Studio IP Addresses Sharing Hollywood Movies Via BitTorrent
from the well-look-at-that... dept
The folks over at TorrentFreak teamed up with BitTorrent monitoring firm Scaneye to look and see if files being shared via BitTorrent happened to be coming from some IP addresses held by the big Hollywood studios... and they found what appears to be tons of Hollywood flicks shared from Hollywood studio IP addresses. Of course, plenty of caveats apply: it's possible that these are super ham-fisted honeypots for copyright trolling, in which they're recording the IP addresses of downloaders. It's possible that the system is wrong. It's possible that the IP address information is wrong. But... it's also possible that some employees at these studios are (whether on purpose or not) using BitTorrent and sharing films -- sometimes films from other studios. For example, they found a Paramount Pictures IP address sharing Happy Feet, which is a Warner Bros. film.
Filed Under: bittorrent, file sharing, hollywood, ip addresses, studios
Companies: paramount, warner bros.
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But since it's just the studios screwing each other, you wave your hand like it's no big deal.
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