– Speaking of P2Ping, the Recording Industry Association of America has a message for about three hundred companies and counting: don't even think about letting your employees think about peer-to-peer file swapping on the job.
The RIAA sent those companies letters last week offering evidence that their internal networks are being used as a P2P pipeline for copyrighted music and warned of legal liability, says ZDNet.com. That's part of an RIAA push for a crackdown on file swappers, with companies responding to that pressure in "various ways" like banning P2P programs in office computers.
Trouble is: it's easier said than done. Companies with particularly sprawling inside networks, ZDNet continued, and hundreds if not thousands of personal computers hooked up to those networks, make it difficult to use high-tech to enforce those policies.
