Corporate Users of File Sharing Software Gain Focus by WeComply
In case you thought that using file sharing software to distribute copyrighted content was mostly an issue with teens and loner malcontents, guess again: according to WeComply, a company specializing in online compliance training, a recent survey of 560 companies of all sizes found that file-sharing software was installed somewhere within 77% of the companies - and within 100% of those companies with 500 employees or more. File sharing is nothing new to corporations: Lotus Notes has been around for more than a decade and newer professionally-oriented P2P products like Groove Networks are gaining in popularity. The need to comply voluntarily with copyright laws for redistributing content at the corporate level has been serviced by firms such as Copright Clearance Center since the advent of photocopying. With new content-sharing tools and cultures, though, the need to monitor and manage distribution rights at the individual level now intersects with institutional exposures more clearly than ever before.