[geeks] Legal Corporate Music Servers

[Lionel Peterson]

On May 26, 2009, at 2:43 PM, Rick Hamell <hamellr at gmail.com> wrote:

> Does any one on the list work for a company that does, or  
> implemented a
> corporate level music server that was legal in the eyes of the RIAA  
> and
> their clients?
>
> I'm finding several companies that provide overhead ambiance music,  
> but
> I need something that streams to individual desktops.
>
> Our goal is to reduce hard drive space used on individual's desktop
> computers (and the associated "accidental" backups to servers,)
> drastically reduce Internet usage from music streaming services,  
> reduce
> the possible security risk of iPods and related products being  
> connected
> to desktop machines as portable hard drives, and reduce the corporate
> risk of being nailed for music sharing at the desktop level even  
> though
> we already condone it.
>
> Yet, we still want to be able to provide a variety of music that users
> currently enjoy as they are creative types and do need the music to  
> help
> provide quality work.

I don't think RIAA allows this use, period

Lionel