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Sony officially 50% of all GitHub's DMCA notices
- benologist 15y agoI don't really see how GitHub receiving a staggering 1 DMCA notice a month from Sony is newsworthy ... the interesting number isn't that 50% (aka "6") notices were sent this year by Sony, it's that GitHub's only gotten 12 all year. Other than not deliberately cultivate an environment for illegal file sharing, what has GitHub done to insulate themselves from the piracy & file sharing community so effectively? It seems like it'd be a great place to dump illegal music/videos/app/game/etc downloads, and accounts are easy to make.
- hartror 15y agoThere are dozens of download sites like rapidshare that allow you to do what you describe without the overhead of git and the files are far more hidden than they are on github.
- 46Bit 15y agoMore hassle than it's worth for public repos as compared to simply uploading to a random site or torrenting. As for private ones, no DMCA requests since they don't know about them.
- henryw 15y agoyeah, 12 is not that statistically significant. If they had >30, than maybe.
- HoyaSaxa 15y agoO how I love the central limit theorem
- jevinskie 15y agoDoes anyone know what the tool was?[0] jimmikaelkael is a well known PS2 dev. I had checked out the DMCAed repo when he first put it up about a week ago but I can't recall it was. [0]: https://github.com/jimmikaelkael/ps3mca-tool.git https://github.com/jimmikaelkael/ps3mca-tool.git
- mcbarry 15y agoIt's a driver to provide filesystem access to PS2 memory cards, using the USB Memory Card Adaptor designed for the PS3. There's another tool using this to make bootable memory cards for bypassing region checks.
- keyle 15y agoThe title doesn't quite make sense? "Sony officially 50%..."?
- tzury 15y agoif you want to read it in more elegant format, there you go: https://github.com/github/dmca/blob/master/2011-06-21-sony.markdown https://github.com/github/dmca/blob/master/2011-06-21-sony.m...
- omouse 15y agoSony are dicks, this is news?
- swaits 15y agoFor attempting to protect their IP by following the processes established in current law?
- burgerbrain 15y agoCorrect. What, did you think that just because they are using the legal system that they are somehow immune to being dicks?
- Produce 15y agoI suppose that you would have stood up for slave owners back when that was legal? IP is an oxymoron and the law is wrong.
- swaits 15y agoWe aren't talking about enslaved humans. We are talking about a company defending its inventions, its business. I don't see where Sony are being "dicks".
- burgerbrain 15y agoNo, we are talking about consumer rights, and the property rights of the legal owners of Sony manufactured devices. It may not be autonomy rights, but it is an issue of rights nevertheless.
- ecaron 15y agoThe larger question I'm curious about is how many of these are legitimate DMCA violations vs. the attack on fair-use that HNers have come to expect when this 4-letter word is invoked.
- senthilnayagam 15y agoThe amount Sony spends on Lawyers it could have spent on real security(so many server/network issues in last 2 months) and some path breaking products. All my Sony money now goes to Apple.