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Studios, RIAA Warn CEOs On File Trading

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the don't-copy-that-floppy dept.

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.

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  1. rewards by xixax · · Score: 3, Informative

    In the same way that rewards are offered to disgruntled employees for information on illegal software installations.

    Xix.

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  2. We have a legal streaming server. Sue us? by PsyQ · · Score: 5, Informative

    At my company, we're running a server were workers can upload their MP3s so all the other (1200+) workers can listen to them as streams via their standard MP3 player.

    We asked our local version of the RIAA whether this is legal, and after some debate with our legal department, they concluded that yes, it is. Even though you might argue that those streams could be saved to hard drive and taken home, it still is perfectly fine.

    I hope the US also has this much freedom, so you could just stream your MP3s or Oggs instead of putting them on a fileserver somewhere.