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I just learned that @TXInstruments sent a DMCA takedown to a site archiving datasheets last year.
This immediately disqualifies them from any future design I make. If engineers cannot share and archive datasheets, I cannot work with you. Ever.https://twitter.com/bitsavers/status/1271233332794191873 …
Here is TI DMCAing a bunch of random datasheets. Completely jellybean stuff like 555s, 74xx logic, and op-amps. Nope nope nope nope. This is crazy. https://www.lumendatabase.org/notices/18049758?access_token=2m7aiYaan5NA2ozEix0OPg …
I don't care what your copyright lawyers think or what the "© Texas Instruments" footer says on the pages; datasheets not being permissively licensed is just an omission and a legal incompetence that is ubiquitous across the industry. If you *enforce* it, you are unusable.
Sometimes datasheets get worse over time, with less usable typesetting, removal of figures or even removal of some documentation. Thinking about a serial chip from the 80s that the original datasheet was better for than the modern ones. It's not ok for vendors to do this stuff.
I love it when the DMCA takedowns just list every URL. It's like they're just trying to give me an easy to find list of the data I need.
that's... a distributor they're taking the URLs down of
That DMCA is even more head-up-ass than you describe. It was sent to Distrelec... who is a major Texas Instruments distributor in EMEA and especially Scandinavia...
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