The Digital Millennium Copyright Act has a lot of issues, and one of them is the almost instantaneous way in which content can be removed from the web if a copyright holder thinks it's in violation - it's a pretty classic example of "guilty until proven innocent." That double-edged sword is swinging back at Qualcomm today: the company issued an apology to developers after forcing popular code repository GitHub to remove over 100 repos for violation of copyright.
Qualcomm Backtracks After Issuing DMCA Takedown Notices For 116 GitHub Repos, Including Some Belonging To Cyanogen, Sony... And Qualcomm was written by the awesome team at Android Police.
from Android Police - Android News, Apps, Games, Phones, Tablets http://ift.tt/1qJ2wtH
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