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Highly doubtful if Adobe will ever come out with a clear answer, meanwhile - wanted to point you to this comment exchange on another Adobe blog: http://blogs.a

Highly doubtful if Adobe will ever come out with a clear answer, meanwhile - wanted to point you to this comment exchange on another Adobe blog: http://blogs.adobe.com/jnack/2010/01/sympathy_for_the_devil.html#comment-2135364 http://blogs.adobe.com/jnack/2010/01/sympathy_for_the_devil.... Quote: Your comment is extremely interesting because it seems to be the first time Adobe has publicly acknowledged that the real reason for that DMCA takedown was the encryption scheme NOT *potential* copyright infringement. Meaning that Adobe deliberately mis-used the DMCA and mis-led the entire community about the real reasons for the takedown right?

pingswept 17y ago
Thanks for that. It seems like Adobe could actually refute the accusation pretty well if they wanted to. My impression from the exchange you link to is that Mr. Nack (the Adobe guy) has a point, but I can't say that I understand it, since he's only written a couple of sentences. It looks to me like some of the folks at Adobe are genuinely trying to be open, but others aren't, so it looks like the genuine folks are lying, since you can't tell who's really doing what. It's weird, because I don't see how Flash could possibly win in the long term without becoming completely open. (I do think a non-open option can win, but it doesn't look like it will be Flash.)