Employees still swapping at work

Workers continue to share music and other files via peer-to-peer applications at work, despite the legal threat from the record industry, a survey finds.

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Mp3 Litigation is only the beginning. . .

The DCIMA would allow companies to sue <br />anyone who interferes with their ability to profit <br />from data that they collect--In other words, <br />academic researchers, public libraries, <br />Internet innovators and other database users <br />would have to pay up if someone else claimed <br />to have "assembled the data first." Apparently, <br />it will never be profitable not to be in the legal <br />profession...one of the few sustaining <br />industries.

Mp3 Litigation is only the beginning. . .

The DCIMA would allow companies to sue <br />anyone who interferes with their ability to profit <br />from data that they collect--In other words, <br />academic researchers, public libraries, <br />Internet innovators and other database users <br />would have to pay up if someone else claimed <br />to have "assembled the data first." Apparently, <br />it will never be profitable not to be in the legal <br />profession...one of the few sustaining <br />industries.