Honeywell Targeted in Scotland for Illegal File-Sharing
The ongoing global clamp-down on music piracy took an interesting turn June 29 when UK recording industry investigators and police raided the Scotland office of multinational engineering company, Honeywell. Investigators allege the company’s servers were host to a major file-sharing network.
The raid capped a two-month investigation by British Phonographic Industry (BPI), the UK recording industry association, which was tipped off by a Honeywell employee.
The Honeywell story stands out in stark contrast to usual news reports of P2P file-sharing by individuals using online applications such as BitTorrent and by students on university servers.
BPI says this case should make other companies sit up and take notice. Email and instant messaging are two simple ways that employees can swap music and other copyrighted content via corporate servers.
