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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.
Just like you shouldn't be playing Flash games at the office either. Quit stealing time from your employer and start working.
"I don't know that atheists should be considered citizens, nor should they be considered patriots." - George Bush
There is plenty of HD space to go around, a few gigs of MP3's aren't such a big deal. And most of my coworkers love listening to ZZ Top, TMBG and Bach on heavy rotation. The only thing I can really see them objecting to is stealing IP on company time but come one, everybody does it!
And you think that's great?
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.. just how human being behave, cause they are not machines.
People are not robots, they are not computers, nor simple machines that use computers. We are breathing, living, human beings. And we cant work all the time, no matter what ppl tell.
It's been found that entertainment creates a better work enviornment. People are more willing to work when they have a more relaxing enviornment (When was the last time you got any work done by never taking breaks and forever working (and i mean minus mountain dews, mp3 audio on head, and the occasional
I think your company is doomed. Please find a good shrink to explain to your exectivies
Technically any non work related material on a company computer is not allowed. But if an employee has mp3's on their PC's no one cares. It's the file servers we care about. Late last year I started searching for MP3's and other media files on our file servers and found around 6GB worth in our company of 700. Including MP3's I found plenty of porn. Including some very sick stuff. I just deleted all the files. I did this every few weeks and soon people got the message. At one point I found a female employee with lesbian porn in her home folder. She was fired.
I stopped the auditing for a few months and the mp3's came back. So I deleted them again. And that's the policy. If you put MP3's onto company file severs they get deleted without any notice. No extra software required to do the searches either. Were on NT/2000 so I just PC Anywhere or terminal server into the server and do a search locally for the offending file types. I can do all of our servers on a friday morning while eating and having my morning tea or coffee.