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The MPAA posted a toolkit for schools to "audit" (spy on) people sharing files. The problem is, they built it using components developed by someone else who had released said components under the GPL. And the MPAA did not follow the rules of the GPL, I believe the specific violation was making any use of said code public for others to grow/benefit from. The author went on to try and contact them, but the MPAA never responded (big surprise there). So finally he sent take down notices to the MPAA's ISP that was hosting the tool kit, and they took it down!

WHEEE!

http://blog.washingtonpost.com/securityfix/2007/11/mpaa_university_toolkit_opens_1.html

http://mjg59.livejournal.com/78590.html

http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/12/04/015229
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