Hollywood Studios Caught Pirating Movies on BitTorrent

So?<p>This shows that there exists employees of anti-pirate companies who themselves pirate. This doesn't prove that, say, the <i>head</i> of these organisations-- who are the ones setting these policies and conversing with the media-- are the ones doing the pirating.<p>I can't be a surprise to anyone that people's moral compass doesn't consistently align with their employers.

With the huge damages that can be gained from copyright lawsuits, why don't the studios just sue each other into oblivion over this?

How does this distinguish between nodes that are only there to collect the IP's of all other users?

LOL now everybody in Warner Bros know who downloaded AssHoleFever: <a href="http://torrentfreak.com/images/warner-pirates.jpg" rel="nofollow">http://torrentfreak.com/images/warner-pirates.jpg</a>

Meh, the studios will just claim that they were researching torrents and illegal file sharing.

How many of those machines are pwn3d?

This isn't the first time.<p>As with the last time a similar story made the rounds, I'm surprised by the cognitive dissonance among those that would sympathize with pirates: when it's Joe Homeowner, an IP address does not identify a person!, but when we find an IP out of Warner Brothers's netblock, the studio "is caught". Let's be honest. In all likelihood, this is an employee sitting around after hours abusing the bandwidth, or a compromised machine, or something -- Warner Brothers very likely didn't have a meeting and say "let's pirate some films".<p>(This does not reflect upon my views re: piracy/copyright nor which side I'd claim to fall on, which might surprise you after reading this comment, it's merely something I've observed from the pro-piracy camp.)