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MPAA offers free detection software

David Post wrote in the Volokh Conspiracy noted some news today that the MPAA has filed a second round of lawsuits against online movie swappers and is releasing free detection software so parents can scan their computers to find any file-swapping programs or copyrighted music or movie files.

Post goes on to wonder if the MPAA might be liable for contributory copyright infringement if the parents use the software to identify the files on the computer that they want to copy.

I wonder something different.  What if the free software that the MPAA is giving away has spyware on it that would report back to the MPAA?  Yikes.

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