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Studios, RIAA Warn CEOs On File Trading
pcosta writes "Record companies and movie studios are turning an anti-piracy spotlight on corporate America, sending a letter to top CEOs this week warning of illegal file trading going on at 'a surprising number of companies.' Full story on C|Net." Earlier this month, they also warned schools as well.
I wonder if certain organizations will have web site access problems this week...
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Let's just hope some of those CEOs are the ones spearheading all the file swapping.
I am a filthy pirate.
I'm sure CEO's will try and get their employees to stop pirating music and movies. We all know how ethical and moral American CEO's are...
"The use of your digital network to pirate music, movies, and other copyrighted works both interferes with the business purposes your network was built to serve and subjects your employees and your company to significant legal liability."
Why not just send one of these guys to deliver the letter?
Dear Hilary Rosen,
This is a warning from the Recording Industry Asscociation of america.
Some of your employees may be illegally sharing copyrighted material via P2P networks in your company. If caught, the leagl liabillities will affect your corporation. Please take the nessessary steps to prevent this from happenin
Lets all send the RIAA a letter warning them the potential lost of business because the are A$$holes. I am sure if we get 10% of slashdot to send a letter we would catch someones attention.
Atto
I didn't use the preview button, so get over it!!!!
Mike
We have been using all means at our disposal, legal and otherwise, to determine the who and where of the sharing of our music property. We know you wouldn't want to see your name or the name of your company dragged through the gutter. So please cease and desist before matters become unpleasant.
Yours truly,
Hilary Rosen
RIAA Counsel
A feeling of having made the same mistake before: Deja Foobar
1) Means of transfering files without walking developed
2) Humans start transfering files without walking
3) Humans start listening to music not made by corporations
4) ????
5) Social armaggedon
I wonder how effective this will be, since about half the people I know in software development (and myself) are laid off and have been for some time. Maybe they should warn unemployment offices next?
Scenario 1:
RIAA: We have evidence that your employees are trading files on your network.
CIO: What kind of evidence?
RIAA: Well... uh... anonymous accounts?
CIO: Stop wasting my time.
Scenario 2:
RIAA: We have documented proof that your employees are using your network to trade files.
CIO: What, like server logs, network traffic analysis and examples of P2P installs on client computers?
RIAA: Yes.
CIO: All supposedly confidential company documents?
RIAA: Yes, so?
CIO: Meet our team of high-priced lawyers. Oh, and here's a picture of the last person who stole confidential information from our company. His current net worth is -$10 million.
RIAA: Eurgh....
Bzzzzzt! You lose ;-)
Freedom: "I won't!"
Milhouse (as Fallout Boy): Movie stardom is just so hollow.
Mickey Rooney: Hollow?! The only thing in show business that's hollow is the music industry.
Satanists get good grades too...suspiciously good grades
silly man, we were only suggesting that because we assumed it would be too hard to actually do. Now that we can't get music for free, this seems like a really terrible idea.
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It's not widely known, but the art of scheduling opponents is very similar in both NCAA football and international affairs.
In Hitler's case, he scheduled a few pansies in the early part of the season. Czechoslovakia and Poland were Division I-AA. The Netherlands and Belgium were lower Division I-A schools, from the weak Benelux conference (so weak, it doesn't even participate in the BCS!). His first test was the mid-October homecoming game against a highly rated French team and their vaunted "Maginot Line" 5 man defensive front. The French defensive coordinators made a further critical error in gameplanning that the Germans would just run the ball up the middle, so they utilized 10 men in the box throughout, letting the Germans use sweep plays and sideline passes to move the ball at will. After Homecoming, though, Germany scheduled a brutal series of games against Russia and Britain. A seemingly endless series of long bombs to test the British secondary failed to do much of anything, but the British couldn't make any headway moving the ball on their own. That game ended in a 0-0 tie. Against Russia, Germany built up a massive first half lead and the game seemed well in hand. With this, they confidently scheduled a December game with major BCS implications, against a very well-rested and deep US squad. The Russians mounted an effective ball control offense with a very effective defense in the second half and, despite devastating injuries, did nothing but push the Germans back and score at will.
But maybe that's another one of those pesky laws that only apply to citizens. Because when we have examples like:
...it sure seems difficult to convince most rational people that these aren't instances of blackmail.
Dear CEO:
That's a pretty nice corporate LAN you've got there. Be a shame if we had to come in and audit your Microsoft licenses because you didn't send us a few more wheelbarrows full of money to make sure you're 100% compliant-- at least, until the next time we need to bolster our balance sheet.
Sincerely,
Microsoft
and now, the latest:
Dear CEO:
Those are some pretty nice profits you've got there. Be a shame if we had to send in the copyright attorneys to take some of it because you didn't do enough to stop copyrighted filesharing on your network to satisfy us.
Sincerely,
Hilary and Jack
~Philly