Cracking Down on MP3s at the Office

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.

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But the best quote from the article...

[chennes]

"Some of these corporations, we are told, have their own little networks--that is very clearly illegal."
--RIAA President Cary Sherman

Man, I hope this one was taken out of context!!

Thank jebus...

[DigitalHammer]

At my workplace, the woman in the cubicle neighboring mine plays Hanson and Bette Midler mp3s off of her personal server on open-air earphones for 5 hours straight. Everyone within a 10 foot radius hates her because of that. Even the boss tells her it's reducing our performance-ever since she set up that server, our productivity and innovation has gone down dramatically. The boss decided to shut down the server to get us back on track, but the RIAA got to him before he had the chance.

We're probably the only people glad that the RIAA is cracking down on businesses with mp3 filled servers. :)

Re:My company's policy is to fire

[abe ferlman]

our company has installed special "anti-fun" headsets on all employee units. We called them "shit-colored glasses" for a while until Helen lost her job for saying it at a staff meeting; now we just call them "productivity goggles".

They are some pretty amazing technology- they filter out bright colors from your field of vision so you won't be distracted, and they give you a mild electrical shock (akin to the type of therapy used to treat homosexuality in the '50's) whenever you have a creative thought. It's pretty amazing, you can really focus on what you set out to do so long as it's mind-numbingly banal.

But other than that working for the MPAA isn't too bad.

you are all wasting the corporate dime...

[edrugtrader]

by reading this article!

back to work!