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Adobe Uses DMCA On Protocol It Promised To Open

Posted by kdawson on from the by-some-definitions-of-open dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Despite promising in January to open RTMP, Adobe has issued a DMCA take down request for an open source implementation of the protocol. The former SourceForge project page for rtmpdump now reports 'Invalid Project.' rtmpdump has been used in tools such as get_iplayer and get-flash-videos. Adobe is no stranger to the DMCA, having previously used it against Dmitry Sklyarov."

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  1. Re:Copyright law? by rmcd · · Score: 5, Informative

    My understanding: Under the DMCA, you can be in trouble for possessing technologies that could be used to circumvent technological protections on copyrighted material So it's not that the technology itself is copyrighted, it's probably that it's part of a copyright protection scheme and thus falls under DMCA.

    The EFF's account of the Skylarov case (which is instructive and chilling) is fully documented here.

  2. Not surprising. It was in the license by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    Is this really that surprising? Adobe's press release when they announced the RTMP spec even says, "To benefit customers who want to protect their content, the open RTMP specification will not include Adobeâ(TM)s unique secure RTMP measures, nor will the license that accompanies the specification allow developers to circumvent such measures."

    So wasn't the takedown notice sent because they circumvented what the license said they couldn't?