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:CoreCodec Apologizes for Wrongful Google DMCA Takedown
CoreCodec Apologizes for Wrongful Google DMCA Takedown
May 6, 2008, 12 :45 UTC (4 Talkback[s]) (6976 reads)

(Other stories by Ryan Paul)

"CoreCodec, the company behind the high-performance CoreAVC H.264 implementation, issued an apology this morning for its recent abuse of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), a law that broadly prohibits circumvention of copy-protection mechanisms.

"In a DMCA takedown notice sent to Google over the weekend, CoreCodec demanded that Google cease hosting coreavc-for-linux, an open source project that provided a Linux compatibility layer for the CoreAVC codec..."

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Google Takes Down Open-Source Project After DMCA Complaint(May 05, 2008)
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All too often, DMCA takedown notices are ...   Best sentence in the story   
John Atkeson
May 6, 2008, 17:19:33
 
Mmkay. Yep, them trained attack lawyers  ...   overzealous counsel   
Carla Schroder
May 6, 2008, 17:25:30
 
Remember to spay or neuter your attack l ...   Re: overzealous counsel   
Fred Williams
May 6, 2008, 20:17:51
 
The Linux tool was NOT a reverse enginee ...   The real reason why they recanted...   
GreyGeek
May 7, 2008, 16:31:20
 
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