Adobe Uses DMCA On Protocol It Promised To Open 203
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."
Re:Will we get to see the request? (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Copyright law? (Score:5, Funny)
Well, based on that criterion, we couldn't include everyone. Think about it. This may be a law from which Congress is naturally immune!
Ah, Open Your Wallet (Score:3, Funny)
That's what they want "open" to actually mean.
Open? (Score:4, Funny)
The guy in Russia works for Tetri-SCO-mpany now (Score:3, Funny)
Tetris Co is more like SCO than anything else
In fact, you can't spell The TetriS COmpany without SCO.
The game was copied/ripped off from a guy in Russia who doesn't even have any kind of relationship with the company claiming now to own the game.
The guy in Russia who invented Tetris was Alexey Pajitnov. An interview with Henk Rogers [nintendoworldreport.com] explains that Pajitnov and Rogers make up two-thirds of a committee in The Tetris Company that maintains the design document that defines modern Tetris.
(especially if you consider the fact that the makers of Tetris-like games are careful enough to avoid calling their game "Tetris" to avoid this issue)
But could a lawyer connect Tetris to tetanus to Lockjaw [pineight.com]?