Canadian Tax collectors caught with pirated MP3 files

[stopbush]

Tax collectors caught with pirated MP3 files


Chad Skelton, Vancouver Sun
Published: Monday, January 09, 2006

Music-loving federal tax collectors in B.C. used government computer servers to store and share more than 800 pirated MP3 files, according to an internal investigation report obtained by The Vancouver Sun.

The digital song files, which were only uncovered during routine maintenance of the Canada Revenue Agency's network, ate up more than five gigabytes of space on government computers.

"The possession of MP3 files can potentially cause a storage burden on CRA's networks as well as the possibility of breaking copyright infringement laws," states the 2004 report, which was obtained by The Sun through the Access to Information Act.

According to the report, a total of seven CRA employees in B.C. were found to have MP3 files on their computers.

Five of those had only a handful of songs on the server, but one employee was storing 117 and another 733.

http://www.canada.com/vancouversun/news/story.html?id=cafbbdf6-f823-41fb-8d37-5cb7f945171d

[politicaholic]

1. OMG! Scandal! Horrible!...caring waining...waining...caring gone. n/t

[Canuckistanian]

2. Wow, a whopping 5 GB.

Lucky they didn't bring the system to a halt.