In the news today:
“MPAA FILES NEW FILM SHARE SUITS, RELEASES DETECTION SOFTWARE: The MPAA has filed a second round of lawsuits against online movie-swappers. The MPAA also made available a new free software tool so parents can scan their computers for file-swapping programs and for movie or music files, which may be copyrighted.”
That’s an interesting new development, I think: Giving away software that “parents” can use to scan for music files . . .
Watch out, MPAA! If some of those parents use this software not to snoop on their kids but to identify those files they want to copy, the MPAA might be liable for contributory copyright infringement!
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