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Re:Download responsibly by Yoric on Monday September 22, 2025 @05:33AM (#45331003)
Hey, ages ago, as an intern, I have been flagged for BitTorrent downloads. As it turned out, I was downloading/sharing Ubuntu isos, so things didn't escalate too far, but it was a scary moment.

So, I'm not using BT at work anymore.

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Re:Download responsibly by Symbiote on Monday September 22, 2025 @01:13PM (#45336480)
I left a Linux ISO (possibly Ubuntu) seeding on a lab computer at university, and forgot about it after I'd burned the DVD. You can see this was a while ago.

A month later an IT admin came to ask what I might be doing with port 6881. Once I remembered, we went to the tracker's website and saw "imperial.ac.uk" had the top position for seeding, by far.

The admin said to leave running.

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Re:Download responsibly by account42 on Tuesday September 23, 2025 @07:05AM (#45345353)
> The admin said to leave running.

This can be read in two wildly different ways.

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Re:Download responsibly by Symbiote on Wednesday September 24, 2025 @04:39AM (#45357787)
Fortunately, it was the nice way — that university is one of the backbone nodes of the UK academic network, so the bandwidth use was pretty much irrelevant.
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