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MPAA Violates a Licensing Agreement

The Motion Picture Association of America, best known for encouraging people to help stop movie thieves, and going after those they consider responsible for such thefts, was using a piece of software called Forest Blog to run its blogs, according to one blog.

Forest Blog, written by 29 year old developer Patrick Robin, is distributed under a Linkware license, which means that anyone who uses it must link back to his site or purchase a license. So essentially, the MPAA is so upset about piracy that they pirated software to run their blog. It is not the first time they have been guilty of such hypocritical behavior.

Published on February 24, 2007
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