Don't exclude the middle: they could be trying to get them filtered, and failing at doing so. I can easily see a coworker having a "brilliant" idea about copyr

Don't exclude the middle: they could be trying to get them filtered, and failing at doing so. I can easily see a coworker having a "brilliant" idea about copyright mumbo jumbo and a bunch of people buying into it. People try things that don't work all the time.