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nickfromseattle

- Was 26

- Moved into company apartment

- Torrented stuff

- Company received a $30k lawsuit for downloading porn on company network

- Hear CEO talking to lawyers (open office)

- 99% sure it was me

- Come clean to CEO

- Was actually another c-suite who forgot they were logged into the VPN

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> Come clean to CEO

Talk about integrity. I'd give you a raise after this if you were my employee.

- company apartment

I guess there's a reason company generally aren't allowed to provide housing in many countries. Some things should just be separate...

Never knew this was a thing. Btw, it's appalling to see more and more companies these days are doing everything they can to keep employees working as much time as possible, while paying the smallest amount of money possible. They do everything: Provide breakfast, lunch and dinner, videogames, massage service, you name it.

In general the companies that provide those perks tend to pay top of market, not the smallest amount of money possible.

What happened next? Did they punish you?

Explain the lawsuit?

A few years ago there was a legal firm that specialized in tracking down people from their IP on porn torrents on the assumption that they wouldn't want their name in the public record and would settle for 5 figures. The law firm doing it was so shady they ended up losing the suits and having a judge tell them to knock it off.

Note that the conduct of Prenda which the judge objected to was that they were both the legal representation and the copyright owners, but didn't admit that before the court. There was no suggestion that their tactics posed any problems.

There's also the problem that if the copyright owner themselves made the torrent available, it's not actually illegal to download it...

[X] Doubt

I don't know what's there to doubt really.

You have been provided the work for free by the entity whose prerogative it is to choose the manners of distribution.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prenda_Law

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