DMCA Takedown

[jackofallgeeks]

So, the Digital Millenium Copyright Act (DMCA) is the current "big stick"
for copyright holders, and DMCA-takerdown notices are legal notices sent to
websites and service ptroviders 'requesting' that they take 'infringing'
content offline. The curious thing Here
is that Google took down an open source project, CoreAVC-for-Linux, because
of a DMCA-takedown and while CoreAVC is proprietary software for Windows,
CoreAVC-for-Linux just provides software patches which allow Linus OSes to
use CoreAVC without using any CoreAVC code. Now, it isn't said who
served the takedown notice so maybe someone who has a legitimate case is
involved, but I don't think the CoreAVC people have any place to call
infrongment if the app in question doesn't use their code. I'll keep
my ears perked for any developments here though given the nature of these
sorts of things, I don't expect to hear any).

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[otakulk.livejournal.com]

Oh okay I looked it up. H.264 is just the MPEG-AVC standard, CoreAVC was popular because it was the fastest decoder around (really Fing Fast). It uses multi-threads so hyperthreading and dual core chips can play high-def video. CoreAVC's complaint was that the open-source project reverse engineered their software, and that was a violation of DMCA. They then apologized, and it will be back soon!