Their Own Medicine

by T. Colin Dodd

MPAA’s University Toolkit hit with DMCA takedown notice after GPL violation

The Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) recently released a software toolkit designed to help universities detect instances of potentially illegal file-sharing on school networks. The toolkit is based on the increasingly popular Ubuntu Linux distribution and includes the Apache web server as well as custom traffic monitoring software created by the MPAA. Although the toolkit was previously available from a web site set up by the MPAA, the software was removed last night after the organization received a request from Ubuntu technical board member Matthew Garret to take it down due to GPL violations.

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2 responses to “Their Own Medicine”

Michael Shigorin says:
December 5th, 2007 at 4:32 am
LOOOOOOOL Kudos Matthew
Novichok says:
December 8th, 2007 at 6:23 pm
LOL Got to love this. I don’t buy them innocently infringing the GPL and even if they did do it without realising that is no excuse. They should have checked the license and conditions as they are so fond of lecturing everyone else about over copyright infringments of films etc.