Tuesday, December 04, 2007

MPAA breaks copyright law

the MPAA is going after college students by providing colleges a program to spy on students that use the college network to download songs and movie by P2P.

Problem? They used an linux code, and violated the copyright agreement.....slashdot reports:

"Ubuntu developer Matthew Garrett has succeeded in getting the MPAA to remove their 'University Toolkit' after claims it violated the GNU GPL. After several unsuccessful attempts to contact the MPAA directly, Garrett eventually emailed the group's ISP and the violating software was taken down."

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