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Everybody’s got their grand plans to put an end to piracy — ISPs are blocking The Pirate Bay, and as for the FBI, they like to take down sites like MegaUpload. But that doesn’t mean they don’t torrent themselves. TorrentFreak dug up a little list of what’s been being pirated from FBI IPs.
With the help of BitTorrent monitoring company ScanEye, TorrentFreak was able to find instances of torrent piracy that utilised IPs registered to the FBI’s Criminal Justice Information Services Division. And not just that they were downloading, but what they were downloading as well. Here’s a sample:
As you can see from the smattering TorrentFreak published, TV and movies are the popular pick including the law-enforcement relevant Homeland and Dexter, along with some others, and presumably some more that just weren’t published. Of course, there’s a chance that this is just some kind of research for an ongoing investigation or a crazy spoof-job of some sort, but there’s also a slightly more likely solution: nobody’s perfect. [TorrentFreak]
Its not that nobody is perfect. Its that scum like the FBI will get paid to ruin peoples lives while they are themselves doing the very same actions. Given that the laws surrounding online copying was written by corporate interests they are essentially traitors. When they branded the Occupy movement terrorist they became traitors in my eye though, given that peaceful protest is guaranteed in the constitution.
Yeah, because the actions of individuals working for the FBI torrenting some tv shows equates to the whole of the FBI being scum.
I think he means that they should remove the logs in their eyes before pointing fingers. If the FBI can’t trace and deal with illegal file-sharing on their own premises but can go to shut down a site in china, its hypocrisy at its finest.
If I worked for an organisation that readily and openly infringes on peoples rights and I actually believed in an open and fair country then I would find different employment.
Just like the LAPD, running around shooting innocent old grandmas in their hunt for Christopher Dorner. Do you not think it odd, in a legal and constitutional sense at least, that the people paid to protect the public are actively driving around shooting at passing cars that may look a little bit like the suspects. They are not even trying to pull the cars over, just opening fire.
This shows a breakdown in the force as a whole. These officers are not fit to hold a badge and yet they do. The fact they are in jobs shows collusion, lack of oversight and other corruptions which lead to a force not upholding its primary objective.
You can see this in the London MET police as well where almost every different department is under an investigation of some kind. The fraud dept is under investigation for fraud, the rape dept didn’t bother investigating rapes and falsified records. Numerous arrests of officers for passing info to the press under dubious circumstances. A lot of intentionally failed investigations, one into a murder of a journalist, the other into the killing of a black teenager.
Oh and those under cover officers starting relationships with female protesters and then faking evidence to try to get them locked up.
The MET as a whole was previously described as institutionally racist. That is every part was in someway racist and even those officers who were not, by tolerating it, protecting other officers from complaints, were in fact a part of the problem.
Its my assertion that these institutions are institutionally corrupt. That from the top to the bottom their priorities are all wrong and then need to spend less time spying on, harassing and abusing the public and more time investigating the real criminals of the world, for which there are many.
Hey, you’ve convinced me. Let’s shut down the FBI, the Met Police and every other governmental body because they’re all rotten to the core.
Or… maybe you’re just an ignorant kid who hasn’t quite worked out how the world works yet. Enjoy your evening…xxx
Real security agencies will prioritise catching internal corruption over external.
can someone please provide a gif or pic depicting the phrase “egg on their face”
http://www.damnlol.com/pics/794/6508c5ec83bb1b18112cda000796adcf.gif
This’ll do
Thanks, much obliged.
http://www.streetinsider.com/images/news/4817139/resize_egg-on-face1.jpg
Do as I say, not as I do. That’s how politics and law enforcement works.
I never thought the FBI were such fans of Home and Away?!