Despite years and years of protecting its rights and interests through lawsuits, the MPAA has violated licensing laws themselves.
Last month, the MPAA began sending out a "university oolkit" to several universities across the US. These toolkits monitor network traffic and created graphs and charts showing the prevalence of file sharing across the school networks. The toolkits were built upon open source software that is licensed under the GPL. After the MPAA refused requests to disclose the code, one of the coders filed a DMCA notice demanding that the toolkit be taken down.
