When Bad Things Happen With Good Software

Posted by Sander_Marechal on Dec 5, 2007 11:34 AM EDT
Information Week; By Serdar Yegulalp 		Mail this story
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If you create a piece of open source software and discover that it has been put to use in a way you find personally distasteful or immoral, what would you do about it? That's a question that was raised, albeit in a somewhat oddball form, just recently. Not long ago the Motion Picture Association of America released what it calls the "University Toolkit", a custom edition of Xubuntu that comes with a number of network analysis tools, allegedly for detecting copyright-infringing network activity.

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In Europe it's simple jezuch 14 1,797 Dec 8, 2007 11:49 AM
simple answer: DRM tuxchick 0 1,419 Dec 5, 2007 2:39 PM

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