This is the sound of sweet, sweet irony sinking its razor-sharp teeth into a deserving ass: MPAA’s University wiretapping product taken down for violating copyright. In essence (the information at the end of the link is murky), the MPAA used open-source code (GNU, a flavor of the *NIX operating system) to develop a sniffer to detect copyright violations on university networks, which they offered publicly. They used the code without honoring the attached license (the GPL), which states that full attribution and disclosure of the source code must be made public, and therefore violated the terms of the DMCA (legislation their lobbyists they helped draft). Under the DMCA, a member of the Ubuntu community sent their ISP a takedown notice, which the ISP complied with under terms of the DMCA.