I swear one of these days I’m going to go postal on whoever had the bright idea of inventing the DMCA. It does absolutely nothing to protect copyright, but does plenty to kill the honest work of open source projects. Like CoreAVC for Linux, for example. This project did not borrow or steal any code - you still required a copy of CoreAVC to run it. Yet we must constantly be in a think-of-the-children mindset when it comes to copyright, and it’s really starting to piss me off something chronic.
If copyright holders are so worried about their rights that they think tying the hands of honest customers is the way to go, then in my opinion, they don’t deserve copyright.
Update: It seems CoreCodec have realised the error of their ways, and I applaud them for vowing to work more closely with the open source community. That said, this highlights the fundamental flaws with the DMCA - it’s a shoot first, ask questions later policy which is so open to abuse it isn’t funny.
The only solution is to pirate everything in protest :O.