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Remember when MPAA released a closed-source Linux distro with the intention of gathering incriminating data on university students? That was pretty weird.

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I don't remember this! Do you have a source so I can get the whole story?

Not only that, the distro infringed the Xubuntu copyright too: https://xubuntu.wordpress.com/tag/mpaa/

That's hilarious. In trying to catch people stealing, they stole a trademarked logo.

Should have fined them damages in excess of 1 trillion dollars to the open source community.

Wait, so they released software with copyright-infringing code?!

Tht wouldn't be the first time. They also illegally released a film and claimed they had a right to do so.

I wish I could use that as a legal excuse "well nuh uh they were mean to me"

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