Sony, Universal and Fox Caught Pirating Through BitTorrent

New submitter Bad_Feeling sends in a followup to the story we discussed on Monday about a new site that scanned a few popular torrent trackers and linked torrents to IP addresses. The folks at TorrentFreak decided to check IP addresses belonging to major companies in the entertainment industry and published lists of pirated files from several, including Fox, Sony, and NBC Universal. Of course, they used the information to make a slightly different point than the industry usually does: "By highlighting the above our intention is not to get anyone into trouble, and for that reason we masked out the end of the IP addresses to avoid a witch hunt. An IP address is not a person, IP addresses can be shared among many people, and anyone can be behind a keyboard at any given time."

Re:So they are uploading the movie?

[gmuslera]

If they are downloading them, they are sharing them as well. Would be great that those 3 companies sue each other out of existence for sharing bittorrents of the movies of the other companies.

Re:Wasn't that site a hoax?

[Anonymous Coward]

Oh sorry that was me. I've been living in your roof for 3 years now.
How's Sally doing in school?

Re:So they are uploading the movie?

[capnkr]

Are you accusing these fine, upstanding, all-taxes-and-royalty-paying media corporations of being greedy and/or acting solely in their own interests? Heh. Next thing you'll come up with is that they've intentionally uploaded corrupted files, stuffed the Obama administration and political process with their lobbyist sock puppets, or something else ridiculous like that...

For shame, you, you... pirate!

Irony

[stms]

Quick pass PROTECTIP or SOPA and then we can catch these companies pirating content then shut them down for a felony pirating offense since Company=Person=IP address.

Re:Wasn't that site a hoax?

[Rockoon]

Have you considered just using www.youporn.com?

Re:So they are uploading the movie?

[gfreeman]

You live and learn. I go away for a few weeks and suddenly you can torrent without seeding and the speed of light is no longer a limit. Bloody technology, in my day .... blah blah blah .... lawns etc

Re:So they are uploading the movie?

[Anonymous Coward]

-2nerd points,

i see how sync packets fail to leave your router/firewall, crying to the holy god of the internetz and their prayers are not heart, butthurt all around, and no confirmation of outgoing packets is possible, practically fucking up tcp/udp connection, unless communication is somehow is done over UPD, BUT IT HAS TO BE MIRACLE!!!!! So no...

Re:Dumb argument

[GuB-42]

Banning cars would make more sense.
Unlike bittorrent, cars actually kill people and are a huge environmental problem.

Re:So they are uploading the movie?

[clarkn0va]

I trust we're not talking about the unlawful modification of a copyrighted work here.