• Pretty sure they were fired for engaging in illegal activities on their work hardware, not for torrenting on a network that couldn’t handle it.

    If it were a Linux ISO I’m sure it would have been a slap on the wrist and a “hey don’t do that again our network can’t handle it” but it was a film, Something the company can (theoretically) get in trouble for

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      Yeah we did have instruction place to be able to do legal torrents. Our programmers and IT department often downloaded ISO images firmware etc that were only available by a torrent.