Akamai Fires Engineer Who Spoke Out Against Music Tax
May 2nd, 2008 | Category: TechCrunch
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Akamai engineering manager David Barrett, who spoke on the record as being opposed to the Warner Bros. sponsored music tax (more) last month, has been fired, sources say.
Barrett criticized the proposed music tax in an interview with Portfolio Magazine. Here is the relevant text:
<blockquote <David Barrett, engineering manager for peer-to-peer networks at Web content-delivery giant Akamai, says he’s opposed to it on principle. Griffin’s plan, he says, is tantamount to extortion, because it forces everyone to join. “It’s too late to charge people for what they’re already getting for free,” says Barrett. “This is just taxation of a […]