Sony Sends DMCA Takedown Notice To GitHub 266
Plombo writes "Sony's war against PS3 hacking continues. On January 27, Sony Computer Entertainment America sent a DMCA takedown notice to GitHub demanding the removal of 6 repositories under the 'circumvention device' clause of the DMCA. All of the repositories in question were related to jailbreaking or homebrew development for the PS3."
They should file a counter-notice (Score:5, Insightful)
They should file a counter-notice, citing the interoperability clauses :)
That was fast (Score:4, Insightful)
Perhaps the real news should be how quickly github caved and removed all of the projects in question.
what will they do where there is no DMCA? (Score:2, Insightful)
repositories in the US may work, but It'll just get some dudes to host them from a country with more loose ip laws
Re:wow. they are upsetting pretty dangerous crowds (Score:4, Insightful)
arent they. the real hacker underground is intertwined with open source. targeting the places where these crowds regular, is not something wise.
but morons which are dubbed as lawyers in some countries naturally would have no idea about that. they got too much used to bullying defenseless citizens through law.
i wonder what will they do to sony's online assets.
Nothing. Stop dramatizing.
Re:All Exploits (Score:5, Insightful)
All right --- Sony appears to be guilty of perjury after filing a takedown notice for someone else's work.
Who is going to do something about it? Selective enforcement is wonderful, isn't it? If Sony succeeds in this, it'll embolden others to file takedown notices against anything they dislike for any reason whatsoever.
DMCA? FOAD. (Score:4, Insightful)
Hay Sony. I think I'm gonna circumvent you now. Seriously regretting buying that PS3.
How the mighty have fallen... (Score:5, Insightful)
Back in the day, Sony was a pretty cool company. They made affordable audio equipment with decent performance for the price; through high school and college, my turntable (vinyl LPs... remember them?) was a Sony. I also remember my first Sony Walkman cassette portable (early 1980s) and CD DiscMan with great fondness; Sony pretty much single-handedly invented the portable audio industry. My first camcorder was a Sony too, and I enjoyed the PlayStation and PlayStation 2 immensely.
Somewhere along the line, they lost their way. Maybe it had something to do with their transformation into a combination of consumer electronics giant and content provider; I'm not sure. But the CD rootkit fiasco was an indication of where they were heading. My opinion of them also took a nosedive when my second Sony camcorder (purchased around 6 years ago) turned out to be a piece of crap.
These days, they are solidly on my "avoid" list. I used to consider a Sony nameplate to be a badge of quality; now it is more of a warning label.
Talk about a double standard (Score:5, Insightful)
Between all that and their proprietary memory in digital cameras, I avoid ALL thinks Sony. They aren't worth the time. So sad a former leader of technology has descended so low.
Re:They should file a counter-notice (Score:2, Insightful)
They should file a counter notice, citing the fact that they wrote the code themselves and it even compiles with PSl1ght SDK, not the sony SDK, su they are completely in the clear and Sony is just harrassing them. What Sony is doing is completely illegal.
Re:The cat...... (Score:4, Insightful)
Because they don't care about customers who don't buy games? And why should they? Why should you care about unprofitable customers?
Re:All Exploits (Score:4, Insightful)
Github won't put them back online. (Score:4, Insightful)
Do you really think Github can afford a lengthy trial with mammoth Sony? Not in a million years. The legal team of Sony will bury Github's with so many documents they either have to give up or will lose.
Big corporations have big law departments. The only purpose of these law departments, which cost a lot of money each year, is to make life as easy as possible for the employer, Sony in this case. This means: they'll do everything they can to make the life of the opponent as miserable as possible: lawsuits, burying with massive amounts of documents etc. Github doesn't have a chance.
Re:How the mighty have fallen... (Score:4, Insightful)
Re:All Exploits (Score:4, Insightful)
If corporations like it, it's not good for you.