Is an Intranet music streaming server legal?
- by Jon Smock
We are a large organization with thousands of users, and we're peaking on our Internet usage. Many of those users are streaming music while they work. We're wondering if providing a music streaming server internally would help on bandwidth.
How legal is that? Here are two scenarios:
1) We purchase a body of music legally and stream it internally (I assume this is illegal)
2) We pull music feeds from free, legal, online sources and "rebroadcast" internally (I assume this is legal)
We want to save bandwidth and help our users, but we want to do it in an ethical and legal way.