Tuesday, January 17, 2006

MPAA rips off software for "anti-piracy" site


The MPAA's ReportPiracy site uses free software code, but fails to comply with the license. The studios talk a good line about the need to respect copyright, but it's their copyright they care about -- I'd love to see a No Electronic Theft Act suit against the MPAA for this. Link (via Digg)

Update: Jeff "If you follow the "Acknowledgments" link at the bottom of the page, you'll find a link to Steve Griffin's site, thanking him."

Update 2: Tim sez, "Google's and Yahoo's cached versions of the page show versions of the page WITHOUT the Acknowledgments link - showing that it was added very recently:



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