Report: House Of Representatives Apparently Can’t Get Enough Pirated Episodes Of ‘Dexter’
Pardon us, U.S. House of Representatives — is that… is that mud on your face? Don’t worry, you’re not the only government group to get caught allegedly downloading pirated content from the Internets. A new report claims that someone or multiple someones in the offices of the U.S. House of Representatives have been catching up on TV and movies by illegally downloading content recently.
U.S. News & World Report’s “Washington Whispers” blog says it got its hands on data compiled by ScanEye, a site that checks on which IP addresses have been downloading stuff on BiTorrent.
In late October, someone at the U.S. House of Representatives decided to catch up on the latest season of Dexter, illegally downloading an episode of the TV series while at a congressional office. In the days that followed, with Hurricane Sandy threatening to keep federal workers hunkered down at home, employees of Congress downloaded the 2012 mob film Lawless, a Halloween-themed episode of The Middle, and an episode from Season 9 of CSI: New York.
That’s not all, folks — in the last four months employees have downloaded dozens of movies and TV, according to the report. Whispers says a bunch of IP addresses associated with Congress are on that list, but since not all congressional offices are on those rolls, the illegal download count could be even higher.
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http://consumerist.com/2013/01/16/report-house-of-representatives-apparently-cant-get-enough-pirated-episodes-of-dexter/
