[mythtv-users] Who needs to worry about copyright? CoreAVC for Linux removed from Google Code

Christopher X. Candreva chris at westnet.com
Tue May 6 14:04:55 UTC 2008


On Tue, 6 May 2008, Sarah Katherine Hayes wrote:

> What it DOES show to my mind is that with a deft flick of the wrist a 
> misfiring DMCA take down notice could vaporise any project, hosted in 
> the states... be it hypothetically VLC, GNOME or indeed MythTV.  One 
> letter and blam gone until the matter is resolved. I'd say it also shows 

No, just until the owner of the site fires off the boilerplate 
counter-notice saying, under penalty of purgery, that to the best of their 
knowledge it does not violate the DMCA.  Then the provider puts it back, and 
the two entities go back to dukeing it out.



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