Comments on: MPAA's University wiretapping product taken down for violating copyright

By: Sputnik

Sputnik — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

The hubris of the RIAA continually amazes me.

By: Matt Staggs

Matt Staggs — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

God, I might as well go back to bed. My day cannot get any better after this – might as well end on a high note…

By: hyperkine

hyperkine — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

This fills me with sweet sweet schadenfreude.

By: Church

Church — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Xubuntu, $0.00.

DMCAing the MAFIAA, priceless.

By: Johan Larson

Johan Larson — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

The irony, it got me, sarge. It got me right here. Tell Susie I’ll be waiting for her on the other side. (dies)

By: Absent

Absent — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

They also were caught pirating copies of “This Film Is Not Yet Rated”

By: Dillo

Dillo — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

*SIGH*
I love the smell of irony in the morning.
Really, I fail to see how my day could get much better after reading this.

By: Nelson.C

Nelson.C — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

It’s downhill from here, Dillo. You may as well go back to bed.

By: adamrice

adamrice — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

People, people. How was the MPAA supposed to know that Xubuntu’s licensing terms would be enforced? It’s not like it had DRM on it or anything.

If Xubuntu doesn’t have a fence around it, how is anyone supposed to know when they’ve trespassed? Honest mistake, I’m sure.

By: Not a Doktor

Not a Doktor — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

I feel a tare in the irony-space continuum

By: agnot

agnot — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Wasn’t it Shakespeare who used irony as portents?

Irony begins to flow from the reversed roll of the garden, the soil of Britain, wasting instead of yielding life.

Only when the villains are cast down, the weeds removed, does the garden become fruitful again.

By: Moniker

Moniker — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Oh my! This irony is delicious!

By: arnonh

arnonh — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

I guess it’s a new interpretation for the Academic Freedom…

By: kate

kate — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Hilarious!

Every time I read something about copyrighting, I realize just how much I’ve learned from bb. ty!

By: Tzctlp

Tzctlp — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Live by the sword….

By: Michae W. Dean

Michae W. Dean — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

They’ll just reverse engineer it and make one that doesn’t use the same code.

By: ecobore

ecobore — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

The MPAA are blood-sucking scum! They won’t even play by their OWN rules!!! Not to worry, soon all their funding will be cut and the overpaid honchos will be out of a job! The irony of this abuse of Â© by these people is too delicious!

By: aenertia

aenertia — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Technically this doesn’t violate copyright as the poster says. It’s a License violation, as such is contract law not copyright. I hate it when people misinterpret OSDL licenses ;-)

By: Cory Doctorow

Cory Doctorow — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Aenertia@9 — a copyright violation inasmuch as by failing to adhere to the terms under which the rightsholders permit copying, the MPAA has violated the copyright license.

By: sabik

sabik — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

@Anertia: when they violate the license, it’s terminated (automatically for GPL v2, upon notice for GPL v3). Once the license is terminated, any further copying violates copyright.

In the alternative, they never accepted the GPL and violated copyright from the beginning.

(Because you don’t need to “accept” the GPL in order to get the program, you get to choose whether you want to abide by the GPL or by plain copyright law. In most cases, the GPL is more generous, so not many people choose the second option.)