iTunes Sharing Illegal?

For further clarification, here's what we've been told:

'Dear all,

I am afraid, that sharing music via iTunes is illegal and we have to stop doing this in order for the business to remain within the law.

The fact iTunes allows 5 users to connect to a computer sharing music is indeed true, but not legal, we do not have the correct licenses to allow shared music across the business, and we are in direct contravention of copyright law.

As a Ltd business, we are in a position as most business are that we can be audited at any point by various authorities, they would look for shared music and illegal software, we would be fined a large amount of money and due to recent changes in the law to combat music and movie theft we would not have the right to anonymity which would be particularly embarrassing to our clients and position with the market place.

Please can you now turn off sharing on your iTunes as a matter or urgency

The company policy allows you to use iTunes, on your computer, and this is on condition that the music within it has been paid for via iTunes or from hard copy CD'

****, this is horrible news. my office just got a tiny bit greyer... 😟

many thanks anyway!