But repeating the offense, failing to come clean and making us waste our time to locate who did it was not. Sure enough a couple of mkv files had been downloaded and deleted by an intern :( Making the mistake of downloading it was forgiveable once, since we lived in a culture where piracy was rampant / normal (this was before Netflix et al were available in my country). Then we got a second email (a final warning).Įveryone denied doing it, so I had to find the offender via checking the bash history of the box for all users.
We sent an email to everyone with access, saying whoever was doing it to stop. We found out after Digital Ocean forwarded us an email from HBO (who presumably tracked Digital Ocean down via the IP) that we were engaging in piracy. An intern once thought it was a good idea to torrent a couple of Game of Thrones episodes using my startup's Digital Ocean box.
