MPAA Steals Code, Violates Linkware License

Found on Torrentfreak on Saturday, 17 February 2007
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A blogger who wrote his own blogging engine called Forest Blog recently noticed that none other than the MPAA was using his work, and had completely violated his linkware license by removing all links back to the Forest Blog site, and had not credited him in any way.

Amazingly, the MPAA seem to think they're above "formalities" like licenses and such. The MPAA blog, located at www.mpaa.org/blog_default.asp, was using Patrick's Forest Blog software, but had been completely stripped of his name, and links back to his site. He only found about it accidentally when he happened to visit the MPAA site.

Clearly, there seems to be a lack of concern by the MPAA of others' copyrighted works. Therefore, is it unsurprising that their customers seem to have the same attitude towards their movies?

Although Patrick Robin doesn't seem to have any intention to sue them, the biggest damage has already been done. It would be easy for them to cough up some license and legal fees; but the negative PR is more damaging. As the article says, how do they expect others to respect copyright if they don't?