US Fed Gov. Says All Music Downloads Are Theft

BenEnglishAtHome writes "Nearly all US government employees and contractors are subject to mandatory annual information security briefings. This year the official briefing flatly states that all downloaded music is stolen. The occasionally breathless tone of the briefing and the various minor errors contained therein are funny but the real eye-opener is a 'secure the building' exercise where employees stumble across security problems and resolve them. According to the material, the correct response to an employee who is downloading music is to shout 'That's stealing!' No mention is made of more-free licenses, public domain works, or any other legitimate download. If this were a single agency or department that had made a mistake in their training material it might not be so shocking. But this is a government-wide training package that's being absorbed by hundreds of thousands of federal employees, both civilian and military. If you see a co-worker downloading music, they're stealing. Period. Who woulda thunk it? Somebody should mirror this. Who wants to bet that copies will become hard to find if clued-in technogeeks take notice and start making noise?" Warning: this site gives a whole new meaning to "Flash heavy."

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odd, I have seen government employees fired, I ahve seen them take contractors to court, and many time people have spent less then the budget and not had their budget increased. I have also seen where a cost during the year ids very high due to an unexpected one time cost, and that NOT be taken into consideration for the next year even though policy said that it could be. For the slow reader, that mean they would ahve a very large budget, and they passed.

Yes, I do want them to run a public option health care, as well as determine regulations for it.

Which is all it's about. It's not about telling doctors what they can do or removing options from individuals.
Or killing old people.
Yes, I have read the bill, have you?