[kgwxd]

I once triggered my domain account and PC intranet connection to be disabled because I started a Linux ISO download via BitTorrent. I didn't get in any trouble. Assuming this is even real, it's obviously just an example of bad management or there's more to the firing than what's being said.

[Symbiote]

I was "caught" torrenting Knoppix on a university computer. I had left it running in the background, and not realised it wouldn't exit when I logged off.

After I'd shown what it was, the sysadmins suggested leaving it seeding to see if we could get the university domain name to the top of the "top seeders" list.

[0xdeadb00f]

When I started my CS degree they specifically made a point to say "Do not use bittorrent. Even for legitimate uses like Linux ISOs, you will get in trouble with the IT dept"