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Submission + - CoreAVC for Linux Project taken down due to DMCA (google.com)

Submitted by rippe77 on Sunday May 04, 2008 @04:21PM

rippe77 writes: Google has taken down the opensource project CoreAVC for Linux due to the DMCA complaint. http://code.google.com/p/coreavc-for-linux/. The CoreAVC codec is a commercial high definition H.264 direct show filter for windows provided by CoreCodec Inc. http://www.corecodec.com/. The CoreAVC for Linux project provided various patches for linux applications (mplayer, MythTV, xine) to use these direct show decoder filters in Linux. The takedown is quite controversial as the coreAVC project did not provide any copyrighted material only means to use the direct show filters in Linux.

Comment Re:claus.wilke, meet Central Planning (Score 1) 162

by hnsez on Thursday December 27, 2007 @02:23PM (#21831440) Attached to: Government Makes NIH Research Open Access

What does the free market have to do with open-sourcing government research? You looked at the facts and drew the wrong conclusion. The only thing this illustrates is that markets are eager to profit from government research. Where was all this so-called free market capital when the basic research needed to be funded? It was being invested in the real estate bubble by overpriced CEO's who got rich off of these "scarce resources".

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