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Clean-Room RTMPE Spec Created From rtmpdump

Posted by kdawson on from the streisand-in-action dept.

lkcl writes "A clean-room RTMPE specification has been created using the source code of rtmpdump-v1.6 for guidance. Adobe recently issued a DMCA take-down notice against SourceForge, resulting in copies of rtmpdump hitting quite a few bittorrent sites worldwide."

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  1. Why? by fuzzyfuzzyfungus · · Score: 5, Insightful

    IANAL, etc. but my distinct impression was that cleanrooming wouldn't(outside of curious edge cases) save you from the DMCA. For copyright claims, the more layers of cleanroom, the better; but the DMCA only cares if the code constitutes a circumvention device or not. It could be based on a cracked copy of some proprietary adobe tool, OSS based on network sniffing of the proprietary tool, written according to a spec based on the OSS implementation, or, for that matter, produced by the Oracle of Delphi based on instructions from Olympus.

  2. WTF is RTMPE? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    If you're going to post an article about some obscure bullshit nobody's ever heard of, you could at least give people some hint at WTF you're talking about. "RTMPE" doesn't even show up on Wikipedia. God forbid you elaborate your terse, two sentence summary.

    1. Re:WTF is RTMPE? by hazem · · Score: 5, Insightful

      It's a common problem with the summaries on slashdot that less-common acronyms are not explained. The world of nerds is pretty vast and it's impossible for all of us to keep up with every possible acronym, system, software, etc.

      It would have been trivial to add ", a proprietary protocol developed by Adobe Systems for streaming audio, video and data over the Internet," right after the first instance of RTMPE and it would have made the summary much more useful and informative.