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MPAA Violates GPL

Jack Valenti sat with two other MPAA executives (clones of each other)

• http://swik.net/Ubuntu/Planet+Ubuntu/Luis+de+Bethencourt:+Cheers+Matthew+Garrett/bvzzh

• http://www.linuxindex.com/2007/12/04/matthew-garrett-4/

• http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20071204-mpaas-university-toolkit-hit-with-dmca-takedown-notice-after-gpl-violation.html

• http://mjg59.livejournal.com/78698.html

• http://mjg59.livejournal.com/78590.html

• http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Jack_Valenti

• http://eupat.ffii.org/players/bolkestein/index.en.html - "The most powerful political force for digital copyright totalitarianism"

• "Nothing of value is free. It is very easy, Mr. Chairman, to convince people that it is in their best interest to give away somebody else's property for nothing, but even the most guileless among us know that this is a cave of illusion where commonsense is lured and then quietly strangled."
• "If you design your own machine, you can't fuss at people, because you're one of just a few. How many Linux users are there?"
• "We do not like it because we think it wrong and unfair."

jack-valenti: Using Ubuntu to build our copyright infringement detector saved us so much development time.
e1: Nothing of value is free.  except Ubuntu.

e2: Well, actually, there are reports that it's malfunctioning.
jack-valenti: what?
e2: It keeps reporting its own IP address

e2: also, we received a tightly compressed ball of outrage and hatred in the post
jack-valenti: was that from Matthew Garrett?
e2: Does Frits Bolkestein shit in the cave of illusion?

jack-valenti: Damn that Garrett to hell!
e1: ...didn't you die?
jack-valenti: no, I had the supreme court extend my lifetime.