Re:I Know What You Download on BitTorrent
by Macha on Monday July 13, 2020 @12:20PM
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My previous employer had a strongly worded email and CEO statement sent out after they were sent a notice of over 100 company IPs (out of 15000 employees) torrenting the game of thrones finale to basically tell people "Hey, don't do that, we do business with many of those companies".
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Re:I Know What You Download on BitTorrent
by einpoklum on Tuesday July 14, 2020 @07:58AM
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You mean:
"Hey, don't do that, we do business with many of those companies, and we don't want them to associate us with the shoddy work on the later seasons of the series, certainly not that ridiculous ham-fisted finale".
And our company (80,000+) showed us the finale live from the US. Paid for of course.
How do you even pay for that? 80k potential viewers?
Aren't streaming licenses normally region exclusive?
Re:I Know What You Download on BitTorrent
by falsaberN1 on Tuesday July 14, 2020 @12:17PM
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Maybe someone had a netflix or international TV account and they somehow shared a stream of it playing live or something.
Now I'm kind of wondering how one would deploy such a thing for 80K clients though.
There are no Netflix streams licensed for further broadcast. Sharing a stream with 80k people is just as illegal as torrenting it to 80k people. Copyright law doesn't differentiate between protocols.
Re:I Know What You Download on BitTorrent
by falsaberN1 on Tuesday July 14, 2020 @11:00PM
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That's even worse in terms of creating more questions. Did every employee pay for their part? Did the company pay for it? How does this even work?