And yes they care
http://jux.law/copyright-infringement-tips-for-illegal-movie-music-download-cases/
On 12/7/2016 8:41 PM, Brian Desmond wrote:
*For #3, that seems like a discussion around acceptable use and risk
for your attorneys rather than IT. The others I would generally agree
with your manager. *
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*Thanks,*
*Brian Desmond*
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*From:*[email protected]
[mailto:[email protected]] *On Behalf Of *Kish N Kepi
*Sent:* Wednesday, December 7, 2016 10:24 PM
*To:* Kish N Kepi <[email protected]>
*Subject:* [NTSysADM] OT: IT Philosophy
We keep a lax environment – our users are local admins on their
Windows laptops and we not stop them from installing any software they
want – the only caveat I ever say is ‘don’t be stupid’. And yes, we
are a hi-tech house, well beyond the startup stage.
During a conversation about potential changes to the way we do backups
today, I stated that the current back up routine specifically excludes
most media files, and also that I’d used psexec to kill utorrent
processes. My boss, who is actually quite knowledgeable in IT matters,
had a response surprised me: why? Why not backup the media files? Why
not allow torrent traffic? His points were as follows:
1.We give them laptops and smartphones and expect them to be available
at all hours of the day – that’s convergence of home and office life –
why shouldn’t we backup the photos of their kids, pets and vacations too?
2.Do we have bandwidth issues? We have a broad link to the internet
and only at periodic peaks do we hit anywhere near our limit
3.Legality of torrents? Really? How many people care about the legality?
4.Malware? We have other protections in place.
I couldn’t come up with any answers that sounded reasonable to me, so
at this stage, we’re planning increase our backup storage capacity.
Does anyone here have answers that I lack? Sorry for cross-posting,
but I this question is bothering me, and I know that many people in
this for a have strong, well-formed (and well-expressed) opinions
Kish n Kepi
