On Fri, 20 Jun 2003, Jeffrey Pyne wrote:
> On Thursday, June 19, 2003 8:54 PM, Craig White wrote:
>
> > Consider these hypotheticals
> >
> > 2 - I am an employer and one of my employees uses the internet
> > connection in my office to download/upload copyrighted music
> > files. I am liable for the activities of my employee even
> > though I had no idea what he was doing.
>
> That is true-- just ask Integrated Information Systems of Tempe. They paid
> a $1 million settlement to the RIAA a couple years ago because, (apparently)
> unbeknownst to them, some employees had set up a Napster-type server.
> (http://www.bizjournals.com/phoenix/stories/2002/04/08/daily66.html) Man,
> that's gotta hurt.
>
> ~Jeff
> ---------------------------------------------------
I worked there, it was an "open secret". Just a windows share sitting on
the network. All you had to do was mount it and start playing music. It
can be claimed that it was a "hidden share" but it wasn't all that well
hidden.
'Course, they don't mention that there were movies on that thing as well.
TJ
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