UK: File-share defender fired over TV show
Thanks to the folks over on /. for pointing this out.
Owen Gibson writes in The Guardian UK:
A software engineer and champion of peer-to-peer file sharing is planning legal action after being sacked for expressing his views on BBC's Newsnight.
Alex Hanff, 31, was just a week into his job as a consultant at Aldcliffe Computer Systems in Lancaster when he was invited on to last Monday's edition to comment on the US supreme court's decision to hold software companies responsible for permitting illegal file sharing over their networks.
The next day managers told him he was fired because the opinions he expressed on the show were "inappropriate", Mr Hanff claimed yesterday.
posted by Fergie @ 7/05/2005 05:40:00 AM
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