I am so amused about this story, about 80% of people on the Microsoft main campus in Redmond use an iPod to listen to music. That just makes sense, they get paid ungodly amounts of cash for what they do and thus have loads of disposable income. It’s a total no-brainer that they would own iPods. However, I am surprised that there isn’t some sort of rule about hiring pirates. Yes, if you will remember, Steve Ballmer (Microsoft CEO, aka, Gate’s Monster) stated that “… The most common format of music on an iPod is ‘stolen'” So with that logic 80% of employees at the Redmond campus are thieves. Humm… Good thing that the iPods don’t support firewire connections on a PC, if it did you might have people dropping CD images on to them and getting away with real piracy. I wonder if you lose your soda rights if you are caught plugging in your iPod to a USB port while at work.
Wired News: Hide Your IPod, Here Comes Bill
iPod users are music thieves says Ballmer