Hey, everyone still remember the Stop Online Piracy Act that the cranky old farts over at famous Washington senior center Congress have been feverishly gluing together during craft time, to try to make all that noise from “the tubes” go away? More and more people really, really hate the bill! This is not surprising, because it is awful. What maybe is a little surprising is the number of computers (hundreds!) within the House of Representatives — a body that has so far shown largely bipartisan support for the bill — that are busily downloading pirated content all the freaking time.
The folks over at TorrentFreak have been mining the database of IP addresses in the archives at YouHaveDownloaded.com for evidence of file-sharing over at the House of Representatives. There’s no way of knowing whether any of the addresses belong to specific Representatives who support the bill, but at the very least it seems possible from their search to reasonably conclude, “Congress is stacked silly with Internet pirates.”
From TorrentFreak:
Although we don’t plan to go on forever trawling the archives, we felt that there was at least one place that warranted further investigation – the U.S. House of Representatives. Since it’s the birthplace of the pending SOPA bill, we wondered how many of the employees there have engaged in unauthorized copying.
The answer is yet again unambiguous – they pirate a lot.
In total we found more than 800 IP-addresses assigned to the U.S. House of Representatives from where content has been shared on BitTorrent. After a closer inspection it quickly became clear the House isn’t just using it for legitimate downloads either, quite the opposite.
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Something that immediately caught our eye are the self-help books that are downloaded in the House. “Crucial Conversations- Tools for Talking When Stakes Are High,” for example, may indeed be of interest to the political elite in the United States. And “How to Answer Hard Interview Questions And Everything Else You Need to Know to Get the Job You Want” may be helpful for those who aspire to higher positions.
And YES, also porn.
How will the insecure fappers in Congress SURVIVE if this dumb bill passes?? [TorrentFreak via Boing Boing]
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Forget downloaded porn. How much is uploaded from those IPs?
Http://www.cstreethouseafterdark.com
All of it, Katie?
An assload of broken links.
I'm shocked, shocked that Congress needs porn. Don't the lobbyists just send over their Love Brigades whenever Congress calls?
should premature ejaculation occur, Congress comes equipped with Big Jim Slade!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xQ96dy93mP0
But do they have a supply of "Catholic Girls in Trouble"?
the midget with the whip is one of my all time favorite moments in any movie ever.
Joy Division?
So ,SOPA stands for Support Our Porn Addiction?
Not enough upfists available for this *stellar* remark.
Does this mean we can shut down rickperry.org for pirating gay porn?
This is obviously just congressional staff, since the members can check out all the porn they want the old fashioned way — from the Library of Congress.
That and none of them are competent enough to figure out Internet Explorer let alone operate on the net with the same competence as a 2nd grader.
Also. Too.
Oh my god, guys…it's coming from inside the house!!
Oh, boy! That ranks right up there with the lingerie models in the Sears catalog.
The JFK & Marilyn film is always checked out. Junior members of the House have to content themselves with the Harding & Nan Britton footage.
I thought congressmen checked made their own porn with their office staffs.
This bill is SOPA King stupid.
I wonder if anyone pirates books about pirates? I hope someone snags this book for Bristol:
"If You Want Closure in Your Relationship, Start With Your Legs"
Joke I downloaded with checking its copyright:
Oh my, LOL!
A dear friend of mine once mused that she would need to be buried in a Y-shaped coffin.
Oh, no, I'm not clicking on "Gangland Cream Pie".
No way.
Why not? It's just footage of a fill-her-buster from the House floor.
and it's not a money shot. it's a motion for cloture.
And for a little gay-porn equal time, "Feel-a-buster".
not a link, not a link..
I'm assuming that it's not an episode of Paula Deen's cooking show?
Do as I say not as I download Anal Invaders 52.
When Boner met Lindsey.
Like my grandpaps used to say " a House divided on porn will never stand erect."
a porn on this subject is already in the making: SOPA Cabana Boys.
House Rule 34
Congressional porn tastes were so diverse it challenged Rule 34.
I used to think that Rule 34 was an absolute, but considering the levels of depravity that our elected officials have sunk to (and have been brought to light) the stuff that is still under the rocks must be something truly amazing. doG knows they will pioneer if there is any uncharted territory to be claimed.
These Luddite fuckers should never have anything to do with any communications media more advanced than an IBM Selectric. I still want to chainsaw-rape the whole bloody lot of 'em for taking away my ability to receive network TV via satellite from both coasts.
I'm just happy to know there's someone else in the house who remembers what an IBM Selectric is/was. Damn that thing was a tank.
Heh. That was downright modern compared to my old Underwood.
Honey, I'm so old that when I took "Typewriting I" in high school, whenever we used the eraser-stick with the brush on the other end, the instructor would swat our hands with a ruler. A few years later, armed with a BA in English, I managed to land a job as a legal secretary, and the Correcting IBM Selectric was a wonder to behold.
Heh. I failed Typing in school. Not because I couldn't type, I was blazing fast with no corrections needed. No, I failed because I rearranged the keys to spell out naughty notes to the girl who used the machine the next period. Had to make it up in summer school, on a typewriter with blank keys. I flunked that class too, because I still looked at my fingers. 85 wpm, but I looked at my fingers. I realized my future didn't lie in academia.
Avast, me hearties! Captain Fapstaffer has reefed his sheets!
Once they Stop Online Piracy, they'll have no reason not to stop the other piracy we cope with every day. Jobs being pirated by companies to foreign factories. Money being pirated into off-shore accounts. Raises being pirated into the executive suite. Stop All Piracy (SAP) to end that drain on our economy.
I call bullshit. I mean, why download illegal porn when you can afford flying to Thailand?
Don't forget The D.R. ElRushbo likes to tee up on fresh cabana boy ass during those cold winter months.
At taxpayers' expense, no less.
For a good old American Gangland Cream Pie, that's why.
Research
"Strengthening international relations"?
People in Congress don't download porn. They flight to Thailand instead.
I am glad you are still doing news. You are the only place on the world wide web internet to do so. All of the other places including the TeeVee are too busy eating canned hams and fruit cake between Christmas and New Years to look outside and see what kind of new things are going on.
Between Football Games and crapping, they put on their bathrobes and shuffle to the computer and take old News and edited it into dumb, best and worst of the year top 10 lists. Sorry horrible plane crash, we are doing a feature article on the top 10 worst Red Carpet disasters of the year (Dear Lord what was Kirsten Dunst thinking?) and there is just no room for you.
But I NEED to know what the ten top cat videos of 2011 were!
Well this is the best Cat video of the year.
These folks are from my town too.
It will make you cry with happiness. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lNpeTCEPrRk
Ah, so sweet. I vote we replace all members of Congress with cats. Of course, the first thing they'll do is legalize catnip, but that's OK.
Newt would like to help Oskar the blind kitten by cutting taxes on the Amalgamated Blind Kitten Rendering Plant.
This is a strategy the content farms learned from the journasaurs: "Top 10 ____ of 20xx" = "I get the week off." Win-win!
Yep. They've already got it all done it up by Christmas Eve, even allowing for the usual downloading of porn and playing computer solitaire. I know because once upon a time I was a journasaur. Wait …
You had me at "Between Football Games and crapping…"
Awesomesauce!!
This could lower the reputation of Congress with the public.
Yes. This will be the day that America lost it's innocence. Again.
Or raise it.
Yes, it's the Limbo Congress! How Low Can You Go!
Don't challenge them that way.
It's spelled "Limbaugh," Steve.
Unpossible. They're already at like -.04 percent.
Can we please Occupy Congress after we rest off all of the holiday calories? Pretty please? I've been needing an excuse to get back to DC.
My mother used to make us sopa when I was a kid, sometimes even sopa seca if we were good.
Is she Peruvian? Did she make it with the fideos?
Hopefully she wasn't illegally downloading those fideos.
Oh, like Biff would rat out his Momz if she was.
No, wait, WUT?
After she ratted ME out for possession, a crime for which I was basically removed from home forevar (thankfully!) I'd have sold her out for anything, for revenge. Nevar forgive, nevar forgit.
No, lily-white and evil, but she could cook when not otherwise busied.
Well, SOME Peruvians are lily-white, right? No?
In addition to all her many other faults, my mother was a terrible cook. Truly inspiringly terrible. We used to sneak her food to the dog, under the table. Poor fella would take it outside and carefully give it a respectful burial in the garden.
Hey! We speak ENGLISH in this country, mister!
Mea culpaMy bad…We do?
Why should I learn English? I have no plans to go to England.
We speak American, here, bub. Oh, and copious amounts of Spanglish.
OT, but it looks like it's time for a slut-walk in Jerusalem.
Can we break down the porn by genre? I am guessing a lot of tentacle porn among the Repub caucus, as well as the obvious twink gangbanging and scat.
I'm sure it was staffers. BAD staffers. BAD!
Good thing they got rid of that Anthony Weiner guy.
What do you expect from people who work in a building with one tall bulbously-tipped structure flanked by two small chambers?
The symbolism escaped me till now……………kinda like a "symbolic' gesture…..
I'm sure that somewhere in the million pages of this piece of crap, Congress is explicitly exempted from the law.
Congress needs a stern warning against this sort of thing.
i just watched every season of this last week. up fist!
Right? 'Tis a shame there won't be anymore seasons. Loved that show.
"Do you know that if you type 'Google' into Google, you'll break the Internet?"
"oh! look at me! me legs don't work!"
i'm dis-abled…
Illegally downloaded, no doubt.
i wouldn't shoot a policeman and then steal his helmet.
It's just like all the other SOPAs: K-Streets of Our Lives, As the Lobbyist Churns…
All Michele's Children
As shots through a Boehner's glass, such are the days of our lies.
"It's just like all the other SOPAs: K-Streets of Our Lives, As the
LobbyistStomach Churns…"tx Carol Burnett
When your Congressman does it, he's an internet PRIVATEER.
Privateers had Letters of Marque to license their predations. Do downloading congressmen have "Letters of Stain"?
If he's a Republican, he wants to privateerize everything!
Can our friends in Congress shoot a load for the zero approval rating?
What kind of name is "Gangland Cream Pie 21"? Or more importantly, will Bristol star in part 22?
I hear she's in talks with its producers…she's trying to negotiate for a fee equal to DWTS.
Ditzy Whores, Trollops, and Sluts?
From the director of "Bring 'Em Young University" and "Shaving Ryan's Privates".
Only if she's paid in actual pie…pallets and pallets of it.
Looks to me like she's already consumed a few pallets of it. Check out those chunky gams!
Mmmm – Harvey's Bristol Cream Pie.
Given how far Snowgrifter's value has sunk of late, it will probably be a mother-daughter act, hopefully with a very well endowed African American co-star so they can run around the set flapping various body parts around howling "I can't believe I fucked a black guy" for comedic effect. Novelty comedy act porn is the only place either of them could get a gig at this point, they're at the 25 minute mark of their 15 minutes.
Lexington Steel's Alaska.
She'll give a knowing look to the camera that says "Look ma! Do you now see how much I hate you!"
Word is they asked Tawd first.
Maybe they thought SOPA stood for Seriously Obsessive Pornography Addict…
… HamBiscuits And Gravy, The Page Turner, Behind the Orange Door, Who Drank The Donkey Punch?, Hung Like an Elephant…
Fill Her, Bust Her.
"Hung Like an Elephant"…is that some sort of sarcastic dig at the GOP?
Don't worry — every member of Congress who votes for it will denounce it when they run for re-election.
They probably already have.
We had Gangland Cream Pie for dessert on Christmas.
Or was it Boston Cream Pie?
Or is there any difference?
Whitey Bulger says no.
do nothing congress will pass this before the New Years break.
Is it safe to assume all 800 IP addresses from David Vitter's office and linked directly to naughty diaper porn?
If Congress outlaws downloading pirated content, then only contented outlaws will down loaded Congressional pirates.
When I called the congress a bunch of jerk-offs I didn't mean it literally.
Sometimes I'm more right than I want to be.
Gangland Cream Pie???
or at all.
Yeah, probably "at all." I wondered if it was a real porn site, and it is. No need to belabor the point because someone in some congressman's office already has downloaded it and is enjoying it as I write this. Happy evening, congressman.
I don't have time for jerking-off Congress critters because I am too busy planning an early start on next year's War on Christmas.
(In a rare after 5PM EST snark)
OH C'MON IS EVERYTHING A CONSPIRACY GLENN BECK?!?!?!?!?!?!?! Someone downloaded, without express consent, the arguments from the July 13. 1995 mammography quality act and they shared it without knowing!!!!! Congress would NEVER do something against the law!!
Can the Torrent Freakers find out what Clarence is downloading over @ SCOTUS? He's the Highest Porn-Hound in the Land, after all, or at least so far as we know.
The reason he's been so quiet since he was appointed to the SCOTUS is he's always on his laptop googling "pubes on a Coke can." Also, googling the term "SCROTUS" to see what it brings up. He was less happy about those results.
Baconz will take that bet. By "Highest" what do we mean? Quality or quantity? Either way…I like my chances.
Were any of the ISP addresses from the National Rest. Association or Godfather's Pizza?
Information wants to be free. I want to be free–of the tea party crowd.
now we need to find out which Congresscritters' IP that downloaded the most gigabytes of Gay porn
Ms Lindsey perhaps?
One L Michele, for Marcus's ongoing research, of course?
"How will the insecure fappers in Congress SURVIVE if this dumb bill passes?"
They same way they can insider trade….They exempt themselves in a closed door session…. I can see that M(r)s Johnson doesn't aspire to be a Congresswoman.
"Although we don’t plan to go on forever trawling the archives…"
"… only as long as it takes to get off."
"But, we will be back tomorrow."
Still, all in all, a smart swap.
Let the mutiny begin.
First, they came for the self-help e-books, and we were all like "haha, I don't read that shit." Then they came for the porn…and we fought tooth and nail to the very last sticky DVD.
Come on, they know that hilarious acts of hypocrisy is the only reason they get a 9 percent approval rating in the first place.
How to Answer Hard Interview Questions And Everything Else You Need to Know to Get the Job You Want
Michele?
Have no fear, I'm sure Darryl Issa will soon be initiating an investigation into this matter: FIXED.
Congress has no Comfort Women?
What about underaged pages?
How can they get all those useless abortion bills out the door?
Sorry, Biff (hugs teh Biff) forgot we were treading on unpleasant territory.
Back to your regular programming.
Hope you're managing to be reasonably seasonably happy nevertheless. Just remember, never let them win. Don't let the bastards get you down.
I'm way over it, ancient history. My hatred of the holidays has nothing to do with that…
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