Turns out the MPAA is trying to install backdoors on students’ computers that monitor and relay information back to the MPAA. Fortunately, people have taken notice and some have even issued a DMCA takedown notice against them. There is alot of irony in this situation and it really highlights the MPAA’s greed and willful ignorance of copyright laws which do not benefit their organization directly.
- References
- MPAA get DMCA Takedown Notice, Taste of its Own Medicine
- MPAA’s University Toolkit hit with DMCA takedown notice after GPL violation
- MPAA Trying To Rootkit Universities?
- MPAA University ‘Toolkit’ Raises Privacy Concerns
- Allegation of copyright infringement by the MPAA
- MPAA Called Out For Illegally Copying Doc About The MPAA.
