Patrick Robin is a 29-year-old web developer from South England.

He is a developer of a blogging platform called Forest Blog which he has worked on for quite some time. It is a freely distributed blogging platform under a linkware license so it does not cost any money and allows virtually anyone to use it.

Anyone who uses the blogging platform is simply required to link back to the site where Forest Blog is offered to be downloaded and used so that the word can spread and people can use it on their own sites.

This is truly not much to ask and one would not think that anyone, especially the MPAA would ever steal the code or violate this simple linkback request.

Even the license is not very expensive to purchase. If someone wanted to remove the link back to Forest Blog they could purchase a license for 10 pounds for a personal one and 25 for a commercial one.

The MPAA blog which is located over at www.mpaa.org/blog_default.asp was apparently using the Forest Blog software which Patrick created.

However, the Forest Blog software was stripped completely of any linkback, or anything which to do with the developer.

Mr. Robin found out that the MPAA was using his blogging software by accident when he happened to visit the site. If he were to never visit the site he would have never even known that the MPAA was stealing his hard work without paying for it or giving back any credit to the person who created it.

The strange thing to Mr. Robin in this story is that it is completely wrong and off for an organization whose goal is to “protect” copyrighted created works to then turn around and not have that apply to them when they go out and virtually steal blogging software for their own use.

It just goes to show that even companies who fight for copyright protection and fight for anti-piracy can actually be pirates themselves.