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Piracy Setup Discovered in WV Capitol Building

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the making-a-little-on-the-side dept.

arakis writes "Someone in West Virginia has apparently spent tens of thousands in state funds to acquire computers and video gear to copy movies and music. From the article: 'Ferguson confirmed Tuesday that his staff found the makeshift audio-video studio amid his widening probe into spending and other abuses at the state General Services Division.' Looks like some employees are getting the axe for everything from purchasing abuse to time fraud."

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  1. Time Fraud? by GuruBuckaroo · · Score: 5, Funny

    What a great phrase! Makes me nostalgic for Doctor Who...

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    1. Re:Time Fraud? by joincamp · · Score: 4, Funny

      Time Fraud is a real thing. It isn't a joke. It's when you're paid to do one job but you do something else. Like when you hire a lawyer to work a case for you, and they are charging you hours while they are actually doing something else.

      you mean like we are all doing right now at work? oh crap!

  2. Obviously, they were fighting terrorism by Dark+Paladin · · Score: 5, Funny

    We know that the MPAA has claimed that buying pirated movies supports terrorism.

    Therefore, these proud patroits in West Virginia (death to all tyrants!) were simply providing a means for Americans to purchase pirated movies without supporting Al Queada (or however they spell thier name). After all, we've learned that breaking the law is perfectly legal as long as you put the words "fighting the war on terrorism" in front of it.

    Now, if we can just get them to take care of that whole "get money from oil revenues to finance terrorism" thing, and we've got it licked!

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  3. Heh by grub · · Score: 5, Funny


    "Capitol Records"

    Thank you, I'll be here all week.

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  4. I bet the CIO/IS Director is a MBA by Kylere · · Score: 5, Funny

    1. Take one college educated idiot (Usually a MBA)
    2. Place in charge of a group of geeks who actually know their jobs
    3. Pay Fines!

  5. Did Anyone Check The Content? by Black-Man · · Score: 5, Funny

    Was it gigabytes of "Take Me Home Country Roads" on mp3 and the movie "Deliverence"?

  6. Re:21st Century underground by Elvis+Parsley · · Score: 5, Funny

    I'm just wondering where they're finding onions with corners.

  7. Piracy in the workplace is common by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Ask anyone in tech support who has had to work in a bloated bureaucratic building overpopulated with secretaries. My favorite encounter was cleaning a couple thousand pieces of spyware off some secretary's computer. While I was doing that, she and another secretary were copying DVD movies on their computers, as well as their boss's computer. Apparently the boss was gone for the day. So basically, I was helping her burn DVDs faster.

    Thank you Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine.

  8. Re:The $25,000 question by mopslik · · Score: 5, Funny

    There are two capitals in West Virginia: "W" and "V".

  9. Ask Slashdot by mjpaci · · Score: 5, Funny

    {jesting}"I have access to almost unlimited funds through a closed-source purchasing system. I have identified a number of holes in the system that would allow me to syphon off funds to purchase a "pirate studio" and install it in the basement of the capitol building. Since I'd rather not pay the Microsoft tax, could you recommend a "free" (as in beer) solution for my embezzlement?"

  10. Re:Oh, no! by Stan+Vassilev · · Score: 4, Funny

    "14GB of MP3s? I'd bet that one in three Slashdotters has at least that much."

    When translated from DontSueMe to English this goes like: "14GB of MP3s? I have at least as much." ;)