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When Bad Things Happen With Good Software

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Information Week; By Serdar Yegulalp
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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 3,098 Dec 8, 2007 10:49 AM
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