MPAA hit with copyright takedown notice? Oh the irony

The Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) recently released a software toolkit made to help universities detect potential illegal file-sharing on school networks. The toolkit is based on the increasingly popular Ubuntu Linux distribution and includes custom traffic monitoring software created by the MPAA. The toolkit was available from a website put up by the MPAA, the software was removed last night after they received a request from the Ubuntu Technical Board to take it down due to GPL violations.
To make clear what the GPL license is it's official definition states "The GPL is an open-source software license that broadly permits modification and redistribution of software but requires distributors to make the source code available to third parties and publish their changes. Licenses like the GPL, which require distributors to make source code available, are referred to as copyleft licenses."
The MPAA consistently tries to get harder penalties for copyright infringement passed through congress, and it seems like they themselves fail to respect copyright laws.
























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