Post: Sony Sends Out DMCA Takedown Notices
01-28-2011, 09:36 PM #1
Afrojack
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Sony has been very busy at work, since winning their Temporary Restraining Order against George Hotz. The Sony hitmen have been targeting the next tier of PS3 devs, by issuing DMCA takedown notices to a number of high profile devs. They've now targeted such people as graf_chokolo, kmeaw, and Kakaroto!

The first to go down was the professor at Carnegie Mellon, who had placed a mirror of geohot's original website, complete with keys. He decided to exercise some caution, and removed the site voluntarily.

Originally posted by Carnegie
1/27/2011 Update: Judge Illston has granted the TRO against George Hotz despite the venue issue still being contested by Hotz's attorney. And I'm out of town. Since CMU has a west coast campus in California and is therefore subject to her jurisdiction, I have disabled my mirror until I can get back to Pittsburgh and look more closely at the current state of things.



Developers all around the PS3 scene started receiving DMCA takedown notices, starting with kmeaw, famous for his custom firmware.


Graf_chokolo posted on XorLoser's blog regarding his DMCA takedown, but he doesn't seem too concerned.

Originally posted by Graf
January 29, 2011 at 2:04 am

SONY took down my GIT repo :-) Who still needs my source code just email me and i will upload it for you :-) Still working on ENCDEC reversing :-) It’s fun :-)



Kakaroto recently tweeted about his DMCA takedown:

Originally posted by Kakaroto
Looks like github has received DMCA takedown and my repository are now unavailable


Mathieulh doesn't seem to concerned either:

Originally posted by Mathieulh
As most people seem to be unaware of, DMCA holds no jurisdiction outside the US.


Originally posted by Mathieulh
Should they ever send a DMCA notice here, I wont pull down whatever they ask me to unless they get a valid court order from a French Judge.


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01-28-2011, 09:47 PM #2
0xFa1z
Splicer
They should never be concerned, U.S laws are within the U.S borders, they're not international, so ya
01-28-2011, 09:53 PM #3
im still surprised with what happen to geo and tro.
01-28-2011, 09:57 PM #4
Czk
Gym leader
Sony is protecting their buisness..... Nothing wrong about that.

If you were sony's CEO what would you do ???

Use your brains lemmings.

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cozmo195
01-28-2011, 10:41 PM #5
Originally posted by Czk View Post
Sony is protecting their buisness..... Nothing wrong about that.

If you were sony's CEO what would you do ???

Use your brains lemmings.



Sh!t i would let ppl hack my console if i was the CEO and charge money for it >:]
01-28-2011, 10:45 PM #6
Chrom3D
Big Sister
Doesen't Kmeaw live in Russia? I don't think Sony can do much about him there as the DMCA doesen't count there i belive.
01-28-2011, 10:50 PM #7
warman_94
Vault dweller
they should go to Mexico even piracy is legal in my country =D
01-28-2011, 10:51 PM #8
DEREKTROTTER
You're Goddamn Right
Originally posted by Czk View Post
Sony is protecting their buisness..... Nothing wrong about that.

If you were sony's CEO what would you do ???

Use your brains lemmings.


you're right, i wouldnt expect nothing less from them. Because of things like trophy hacks that give players an unfair advantage, sony cant just ignore that
01-28-2011, 10:56 PM #9
Chrom3D
Big Sister
Originally posted by 94 View Post
they should go to Mexico even piracy is legal in my country =D


You may be right there. But ain't it so that people live day by day in fear of being shot? And theres alot of criminals all over?
01-28-2011, 10:58 PM #10
Originally posted by 94 View Post
they should go to Mexico even piracy is legal in my country =D


piracy isnt legal in the US its ILLEGAL which is up to 5 years in the penn and if you have more than one pirated thing you will get an extra 5 years on top of that

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