Never knew this was a thing. Btw, it's appalling to see more and more companies these days are doing everything they can to keep employees working as much time as possible, while paying the smallest amount of money possible. They do everything: Provide breakfast, lunch and dinner, videogames, massage service, you name it.
A few years ago there was a legal firm that specialized in tracking down people from their IP on porn torrents on the assumption that they wouldn't want their name in the public record and would settle for 5 figures. The law firm doing it was so shady they ended up losing the suits and having a judge tell them to knock it off.
Note that the conduct of Prenda which the judge objected to was that they were both the legal representation and the copyright owners, but didn't admit that before the court. There was no suggestion that their tactics posed any problems.
- Moved into company apartment
- Torrented stuff
- Company received a $30k lawsuit for downloading porn on company network
- Hear CEO talking to lawyers (open office)
- 99% sure it was me
- Come clean to CEO
- Was actually another c-suite who forgot they were logged into the VPN