CHacker - Slashdot User

Comment Re:Extortion... (Score 1) 282

by CHacker on Monday July 23, 2007 @11:02AM (#19956265) Attached to: RIAA Adds 23 Colleges to Hit List, Avoids Harvard

Actually the Courts have ruled that since we pay a levy to cover the alleged losses suffered by the behaviour (downloading) we are legally allowed to continue with the behaviour. This ruling has held despite the sniveling coming from the "music industry" about their alleged rights.

MPAA Violates Another Software License 297

Posted by Zonk on Sunday February 18, 2007 @02:46AM from the that's-a-little-cold dept.

Patrick Robib, a blogger who wrote his own blogging engine called Forest Blog recently noticed that none other than the MPAA was using his work, and had completely violated his linkware license by removing all links back to the Forest Blog site, not crediting him in any way. The MPAA blog was using the Forest Blog software, but had completely stripped off his name, and links back to his site. He only found about it accidentally when he happened to visit the MPAA site.

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