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The internet provider on my dorm explicitly allows legal torrents
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this post was submitted on 07 Oct 2025
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NGL firing someone for downloading a movie seems like overkill
Knowingly pirating a movie on a company network and it causing a lot of disturbance for everyone else is pretty bad. Also could've been a new hire in probation period or something.
sounds like bad network admin. no single device should ever be able to make 100s or thousands of simultaneous connections, and the bandwidth should be reasonably throttled to prevent this.
Again, they knowingly did something illegal with company property.
Ideally they wouldn't be able to bring the network to it's knees like that, but sometimes one user behaving how they aren't supposed to can highlight areas of improvement in the network configuration.
As JackbyDev@programming.dev said, they knowingly did something illegal that isn't work related on company property and caused an effective outage in the process, which on its own can be a fireable offense, but if performed by an employee who was already on thin ice, it's an easy out for their manager to get rid of them of they didn't have enough reason to let them go beforehand
It is bad network admin but if it was on a trusted network segment it's not entirely unexpected.
Potentially opening up a issue with the internet service provider and other fines for the company you work for knowingly by doing something idiotic like downloading seems like a bad move.