Canadian tax collectors caught with pirated MP3 files

[Jared Moya]

<p>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. </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&quot;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,&quot; states the 2004 report, which was obtained by The Sun through the Access to Information Act. </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>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.</p>

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[mountain_rage]

See cria we damn well support filesharing so quit with the false statistics and leave us the hell alone before we beat your ass down.

[Signa]

now did they find a p2p prog on the pcs? or just the MP3s? if it just was MP3s, who to say it wasnt their cd's that they brought to work in a different format? they still should be fired to mis-using government resources, but i dont see what the big news is here