I used to work in a national lab and one day got an email from IT asking why I was torrenting so much (they use a tool to monitor network traffic so they knew e

I used to work in a national lab and one day got an email from IT asking why I was torrenting so much (they use a tool to monitor network traffic so they knew exactly what machine was generating gigabytes of traffic). I told them I was downloading linux (true) and they put me on a whitelist. But it still felt weird.