Bad News

To: | All Employees |

From: | , Director of Computer Security |

Date: | May 3, 2013 |

Re: | Legal & Illegal Music |

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It has come to aspire consulting’s attention that despite our well known freedom of expression work atmosphere, that some employees are downloading and listening to illegal music off the internet. Downloading and listening to illegal music must stop now. Below I will explain how to tell if the music you are listening to is illegally obtained and some legal ways to listen to the same music you have been already been enjoying.

Illegal Music

It is fairly easy to figure out if you are indeed downloading music illegally. All you have to do is ask yourself, “Did I pay for this song?” If the answer is “no” then you must have downloaded the song illegally. If you are using just about any P2P and/or torrent software to get your music then it your music files are being downloaded illegally. The record companies and more importantly, the artists of your favorite songs are losing millions of dollars and are starting to take legal action against those who download music illegally. If you have any music on your company computer please delete any songs that were downloaded illegally and uninstall any P2P and/or torrent software.

Legal Music

There are plenty of ways to listen to the music you want, when you want, 100% legal. Below are the top 3 services I recommend:

* Pandora.com - With Pandora you can explore this vast trove of music to your heart's content. Just drop the name of one of your favorite songs, artists or genres into Pandora and let the Music Genome Project go. It will quickly scan its entire world of analyzed music, almost a century of popular recordings. It’s free to register and use, the only flaw is that free members will have to listen to an ad or two every once in awhile.

* Spotify.com - With Spotify, it’s easy to find the right music for every moment – on your phone, your computer,...