US House of Representatives: Internet pirates
US House of Representatives: Internet pirates
December 28, 2011
Source: Boing Boing
TorrentFreak continues to crawl through YouHaveDownloaded, a database of IPs that have been logged by a BitTorrent-spying tool run by some folks in Russia. They’ve already revealed the downloading habits of the RIAA and DHS as well as the behavior detected at Nicholas Sarkozy’s official residence, and now they’re publishing stats on the US House of Representatives.
The House, of course, has been mired in Internet controversy since Rep Lamar Smith introduced his Stop Online Piracy Act, which establishes a regime of national censorship in the name of fighting copyright infringement. So it is with some amusement that TorrentFreak points out that more than 800 of the IP addresses assigned to the House of Reps were involved in copyright infringement over BitTorrent, according to the YHD database. There’s a big trove of self-help books in there, with titles like “Crucial Conversations- Tools for Talking When Stakes Are High,” and who knows, maybe that’s what Mr Smith was reading when he decided to sell out America to Hollywood?
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