An IT employee and a contractor working at Fox Entertainment
Group have been dismissed after it was discovered that they had
been using the office network as a warez server, hosting illegal
copies of movies and software for downloading by others.
Daredevil, The Matrix Reloaded and X2: X-Men United were among
14 movies – not all Fox movies – that Rupert Murdoch's media
company was unwittingly hosting on its computers.
Federal authorities were alerted by Fox and traced access to the
server to IT department employee Lisa Yamamoto. It appeared that
she and other members of a warez group were accessing the files,
according to an affidavit obtained by The Smoking Gun web site.
Warez is a term commonly applied by software pirates to files
which have been made available on the internet for downloading and,
if necessary, stripped of their copy protection.
