Years ago, I knew of a guy who worked at a large company, and was involved in servers. He set up a server on company hardware, and was storing terabytes of movies and music on it.
And a lot of people knew about it and used it, or so he said.
When he proudly told me about it, I was appalled. “Are you insane? Do you know what could happen to you if the company found it, or someone ratted you out to an anti-piracy or government group? They aren’t going to go after Joe Blow with a bunch of movies, they are going to go after someone if they have big pockets...and where will that leave you? Do you think they are just going to pay their multi-million dollar fine and be done with it? You would be ruined, and rightfully so!”
I still can’t believe the person did that. How could someone be so stupid?
I agree with you. Many computer wizards are detail oriented and anal. They often don’t see the bigger picture.