How P2P Can Taint a Career

duncan writes "After appearing on the BBC news review program Newsnight to discuss the recent Grokster case, Alex Hanff returned to work the next day and was promptly sacked because 'his presence within the company could count against it when bidding for big government contracts.' Read more at The Guardian"

Comments

Umm, no

[imstanny]

The fact that he got fired sucks for him. But, the reason you hire a person is because that person will be an asset to the company. If the person becomes a liability, not firing that person is an act of stupidity.

No one has a right to a job. An employer gives the employee a priviledge to work there, and they can take that priviledge away.

Re:please understand

[uberdave]

OK, every so often people claim that a story is a dupe. Usually I trust that this is so. There have been times that I remember seeing the original story. However, there have been times that people have called "Dupe" on a story that I haven't seen the original to. I've previously just written it off to a lack of attentiveness on my part. With this story, quite a few people have complained about this story being a dupe. So, I went back and tried to find the "original" story, because I didn't recall reading about this before. So, here's the list of the Slashdot stories for July. I couldn't find the original to this "dupe". (Sorry if this seems a little long winded, Slashdot has a lameness filter that prevents you from posting a bunch of short lines. You have to have an average of 40 characters per line, I guess, so I've had to pad out my post.)

• Your Rights Online: How P2P Can Taint a Career
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• Linux: Linux Finds Its Way to More Handheld
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• IT: Anatomy of a Hack
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• Games: Man Convicted For Hacking Xbox
• Developers: Harvesting & Reusing Idle Computer Cycles
• Grokster Case Aftermath: Busy times Ahead for EFF
• Hardware: Ray Kurzweil 2001-2003 essays Available as a PDF
• Ask Slashdot: Shopping Online
• Science: Graphics in Science
• In SIlicon Valley: Profits up. Employment Down.
• Science: Cometary Fireworks Go Off Without Hitch
• Star Destroyer Built Before Your Eyes
• Your Rights Online: Owner of the Word Stealth 'Protecting' Rights
• Science: Japan Probes Mysterious Vapor Eruption
• Statler And Waldorf From the Balcony
• Politics: Britain to Pilot GPS Speed Governors
• Developers: Windows Software Ugly, Boring & Uninspired
• Games: Columbine Student on VG Violence
• Science: Cloning In The Animal Kingdom
• Wikimedia to Hold First International Conference
• Cartoon Network Acquires Neon Genesis Evangelon
• Gates Says No to Implants
• Your Rights Online: The Grinch Who Patented Christmas
• Science: Deep Impact on Comet Theory
• Science: 2005 IDEA Awards
• BBC Offers Beethoven Symphonies for Download
• Science: Royal Society Finds Lost Newton Papers
• Science: Vehicle for Cockroaches
• Science: Innovation Getting Slower?
• Science: Cassini's Got Pictures And Data
• Politics: U.S. Won't Let Go of DNS
• Attack of the $1 DVDs
• Science: Tempel 1 Impact Day After Tomorrow
• IT: Microsoft Serious About VoIP
• Science: Next NASA Vehicles To Resemble Shuttles
• IT: SAGE 2004-2005 Salary Survey Announced
• Hardware: Cheap to Audiophile with Simple Hacks
• Your Rights Online: EU Software Patent Directive Getting Hot
• Science: 83,431 Recited Digits of Pi
• Your Rights Online: New Michigan Law Means Kids Can Opt Out of Spam
• IT: Federal Agencies Must Use IPv6 by 2008
• IT: A $251 Million Typo
• Hardware: Japanese Robot Guards to Patrol Shops And Offices
• Science: How Ice Melts
• Interviews: CNN Interviews with Harlan Ellison, Bruce Sterling
• 2005 Looks Like Record Year for Net Growth
• Science: Science's 125 Big Questions
• Politics: Possible Taxes For Broadband Users
• Games: MMOGs Reaching For Casual Gamers
• Your Rights Online: SCO Versus Novell Going All the Way
• Sun's COO Distorts Free In Free Software
• Your Rights Online: Government To Fix Identity Theft?
• Your Rights Online: Sweden Bans Copyrighted Downloading
• Linux: Linux From A CIO's Perspective
• Your Rights Online: Justice O'Connor Retiring
• Your Rights Online: Bittorrent Creator A Digital Pirate?
• Your Rights Online: Microsoft To Pay IBM In Antitr

Re:Misleading summary

[slashdotnickname]

For someone championing individual opinions, you sure parrot the extreme liberal talking-points pretty well.

Do you even know what a "religious fundamendalist zealot" is? I've yet to read about Bush hanging Laura in the name of God for some minor mistake she made.