Saw this on Digg: the Motion Picture Association of America, who oppose movie piracy vigorously, are in essence pirating software.
I can’t find the original story back, but someone posted a screenshot of the violation. And I went and grabbed my own:
In essence, Stephen Griffin of i-code.co.uk coded a menuing system in Javascript, and released it to anyone on the web to use: with one proviso:
/***********************************************************/
/** this script is free for any use, but please include **/
/** a link to i-code.co.uk in any redistribution **/
/** Author : Stephen Griffin, http://www.i-code.co.uk **/
/**********************************************************/
That’s the license. That’s the terms under which you can use his software. And the link does not exist on the MPAA site.
So: what can you do?
Go to the MPAA piracy reporting site right now and report some piracy!
[ update January 18 ]The MPAA has apparently added a thank-you note … but as boingboing notes, it was very recently added.