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    MPAA violating Ubuntu trademark, possible copyright infrigement

    It seems in a new level of hypocrisy the anti-piracy goons at the MPAA created a tool for spying on University students' computer activities called "University toolkit", which they are heavily promoting to University administrators across the USA. The tool is actually a modified version of Xubuntu, and in fact doesn't change any of the artwork. No source code is provided on their website either at http://universitytoolkit.org/

    There would be reason to believe that they are at minimum violating Ubuntu's trademark, and likely also violating the GPL and thus committing copyright infringement or "piracy" as they like to call it.

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    that's illegal. Someone should do something

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    but guys it is under the GNU license so it can be re distributed

    *but yes i am also *** pissed off
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    Re: MPAA violating Ubuntu trademark, possible copyright infrigement

    Quote Originally Posted by linux noooob View Post
    but guys it is under the GNU license so it can be re distributed

    *but yes i am also f*** ing pissed off
    But if it's released, so does the source code, right?

    Also, it just might be something similar to Ubuntu Ultimate... in other words, just Xubuntu with some different applications pre-installed. I'm not sure if that's illegal though.

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    Quote Originally Posted by linux noooob View Post
    but guys it is under the GNU license so it can be re distributed

    *but yes i am also f*** ing pissed off
    The GNU GPL requires any modifications to a software program to be distributed with the source code or easy to access to the source code. If nothing is modified from standard Xubuntu, they are in the clear but somehow I highly doubt this. Even without this, Xubuntu is a trademark and you cant distribute products on the Xubuntu name which are clearly not Xubuntu.

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    Re: MPAA violating Ubuntu trademark, possible copyright infrigement

    Quote Originally Posted by linux noooob View Post
    but guys it is under the GNU license so it can be re distributed

    *but yes i am also f*** ing pissed off
    where is the source code?

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    good point!

    lets sue em!

    wow i never noticed the source code thing when i went to download the only thing that popped up was source code
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    Re: MPAA violating Ubuntu trademark, possible copyright infrigement

    Quote Originally Posted by linux noooob View Post
    good point!

    lets sue em!

    wow i never noticed the source code thing when i went to download the only thing that popped up was source code
    No, that's MPAA webmaster suckage. Their webserver is getting mimetypes wrong. If you want to download the ISO you have to right click and choose "Save Target As.."

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    oohh

    haha they suck and c'mon who's there I.T. guy he should be sued for lack of geeky smarts
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    Re: MPAA violating Ubuntu trademark, possible copyright infrigement

    it's a basicly a Sniffer with a web interface,
    They are using NTop and Snort, both open source and in the Ubunutu distros....


    burn that iso, check it out, and give us all a full report on what it really is.....

    here is a review of it
    http://mytakeonsecurity.blogspot.com/

    http://taosecurity.blogspot.com/

    "Technically, there's not much to worry about here -- at least not yet. I do worry about putting monitoring tools in the hands of people who don't know what they're doing and seeing them act on misconceptions. It's also important to identify the fact that this activity could violate wiretap and privacy laws."


    there are many hacker toolkits like this out there too
    I have used 4 in the past 7 years relating to my job

    honestly, I don't see anything to worry about yet with this.

    if they were selling it then there would be an issue
    Last edited by jaakan; November 25th, 2007 at 06:30 AM.

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