Does Your Employer Ban Skype?

neutralino asks: "This morning, we received an company-wide email stating that the Max Planck Society (a German government funded research organization) has outlawed the use of P2P software at all of its institutes (including ours). The statement specifically singled out the use of Skype for internet telephony. The reasons given for this were that 'the exchanged data cannot be controlled' (therefore it might be illegal) and that 'Max-Planck or research resources in general might be abused, if "only" for commercial purposes.' This caught us by surprise, since many of us use VoIP to communicate with friends and family and collaborators, in our respective home countries. Is it now standard practice for companies, government organizations, and universities to outlaw Skype? Should it be?"

Comments

Re:Nope

[Anonymous Coward]

So...you can't use Skype then. Being able to visit a companies webpage doesn't mean you can use their products. I think if the submitter meant that their webpage had been banned it's likely that's what he would have typed.

Do you suffer from a combination of Aspergers and Down syndrome?

Re:definition of illegal

[Tweekster]

oh you got a dictionary def, which is rather meaningless in day to day conversation... the usage of the word illegal means to most people, breaking a law. cock