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Tech firms target workplace downloads

Date: October 8, 2002

Author: John Borland

QUOTE: Technology companies Macrovision and Websense are teaming up to root out illegal MP3s, movies, games and other copyrighted material on employees' work computers.

ABSTRACT: Fearing what employees could do on company computers and bandwidth, employeers are turning to monitoring software.    New software, produced by Macrovision and Websense, will block games, MP3, instant messaging, anything the employer wants banned from the workplace.  Such softwared may drasticallys shrink "employees' online freedoms in the workplace," but they could prevent copyright infringement that companies are being held responsible for.
--- Kathleen Hom

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• CNET Networks
• Privacy Foundation
• Recording Industry Association of America, The (RIAA)

Subject & Geographic Categories:

• Businesses & Organizations
  • Human Resource Development: General

• Computers & Information Technology
  • Computer Network Access/Data Flows
  • Internet General (see also Fraud, Free Speech, etc.)

• Law & Justice
  • Civil Law / Common Law
    • Intellectual Property (conceptual)
      • Copyright/Content Piracy

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