Slashdot Mirror

← Back to Stories (view on slashdot.org)

Cracking Down on MP3s at the Office

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the but-i-need-those-tunes-to-live dept.

jhaberman writes "News.com has a story about how corporations are now starting to crack down on networked MP3's, not necessarily for the reasons you might think." Talks about legal issues, as well as bandwidth issues, and the simple issue of employees wasting their employers time.

1 of 410 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Bring your MP3's to work on CD-Rom... by pedro · · Score: 2, Flamebait

    No shit!
    This sort of thing is just a small scale example of the corruption of values that brought Enron down, and will shortly end Worldcom.
    'MEMEMEMEME!' bullshit. Let's slap those puppies down. They're no better than spammers.
    d00dz!
    You HAVE TO HAVE AND EMBRACE A SET OF VALUES THAT ACTUALLY WORK!
    Otherwise this great place that we know as 'the Net' is gonna go away. The commons! We can't afford to lose that!
    Police your buds. Be relentless.
    I pray that made sense, as I have a buzz on...

    --
    Brak: What's THAT?
    Thundercleese: A light switch.. of TOTAL DEVASTATION!