Don’t trust anyone under 25! — IFPI
p2pnet news | P2P:- Warner Music, EMI, Vivendi Universal and Sony BMG’s IFPI (International Federation of Phonographic Industry) has it all figured out.
Don’t trust anyone under the age of 25! – it says in a shock-horror warning.
As the basis for this absurd (even for the Big 4) statement, the IFPI cites a 2007 “academic” paper developed by Ipsos-MORI for, you guessed it, IFPI, says Encore.
Academic?
Ipsos-MORI lists advertising, loyalty, marketing and media and public affairs as its “specialisms”.
Specialisms?
Anyway, the company claims, “Unrecognized to many of [P2P] users is the serious security threat these [P2P] networks pose to both corporate and individual security,” says the story, continuing:
“Confidential and potentially damaging documents have made their way onto these networks. The research also shows that criminals actively search P2P networks hoping to find information that they can exploit.”
Really? Criminals, “actively search P2P networks hoping to find information that they can exploit?” Yup. And if the IFPI says it’s so, then it must be so.
Encore goes on >>>:
And just in case you’re still not afraid, the IFPI warns your employer to beware encouraging them to watch out particularly if you’re under 25.
Adds the story:
- Research conducted by Ipsos-MORI for IFPI in the UK in November 2007 indicates that one in ten office employees are using the workplace to download music, two thirds of them illegally, exposing their employers not only to computer network risks, but to legal risks too.
- Nearly half of those who download music illegally in the workplace (43%) know that their employers have a policy on copying, sharing and downloading music ? suggesting they disregard rules set by their bosses.
- The problem appears to be concentrated among younger workers. The survey indicated that one in five under 25s illegally download music at work. It only takes one person to download an infected file and expose the company to huge risks.
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Also See:
Encore – The Hidden Danger Of Downloading: The IFPI Tries New Scare Tactic, March 12, 2008
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March 18th, 2008 at 8:36 am
I have attempted to locate this Mori information on their site and been unsuccessfull do you have any actual links to the paper Jon?
March 18th, 2008 at 9:27 am
Hi Quartz:
Sorry, I don’t have it.
Cheers!
March 18th, 2008 at 10:10 am
I am 26, but nevertheless, I am at war with you, IFPI, working day and night to dismantle your organization and free the artists.
March 18th, 2008 at 10:34 am
It does not matter what these corporates parasites are doing or saying. We are not bying anything from them!
BOYCOTT! BOYCOTT! BOYCOTT! AND
BOYCOTT until they is nothing left of them!
Tell all you friend and collegues, 25, below and above!
March 18th, 2008 at 11:07 am
Criminals, “actively search P2P networks hoping to find information that they can exploit”
shit, I guess the authorities will accept that one as an admission of guilt on part of RIAA and their unlicensed [therefor "Criminals" by definition] investigators from MediaSentry.
They are doomed I guess
March 18th, 2008 at 11:59 am
This begs the question to be asked:
WHERE ARE ALL THE “SAVE THE CHILDREN” CROWD ON THIS???????? ?:|
March 18th, 2008 at 11:06 pm
The kids will grow up. As they do, the RIAA will fall apart. People get older, and that hatred will stay.
March 18th, 2008 at 11:27 pm
Who do you think was responsible for spreading some of this malware in the past? Case always comes to mind when I hear this of LoudEye who much like MediaSentry, was paid by the megacorporations to spread trojans into P2P apps. LoudEye went down the tubes when Kaaza changed to a better hashing system than the original. When that happened, it was no longer as easy to slip on trojans. M$ had a little to do with the sealing up on a security problem in automatically accepting and forwarding you to a licensing site. One which LoudEye had setup to serve those malwares.
While LoudEye is no longer with us, the trojans they graced us with are still out on the net to be found. It is my hope that MediaSentry faces the same fate as LoudEye with the exposure of their inner workings through the email release showing how they did their dirty deeds.
The advice to trust no one under 25 is worthless. The statement is loaded with bias and has no basis other than their own point of view. Where would any social group be without their peer acceptance? I wonder if it has ever occurred to them that criminal actions didn’t start recently but rather have been with us all through history. That means even a percentage of those that are in their senior years may have at one point in their lives been doing illegal actions. I speak in the broader sense of true crime, not in the sense of the tunnel vision implied here in this mention of an article.