

Sony officially 50% of all GitHub's DMCA notices  - ecaron
https://github.com/github/dmca/commit/5476ab2ffe18a286a1476293276c3149c0c2d50d

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benologist
I 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.

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henryw
yeah, 12 is not that statistically significant. If they had >30, than maybe.

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HoyaSaxa
O how I love the central limit theorem

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ecaron
The 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.

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jevinskie
Does 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>

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mcbarry
It'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.

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senthilnayagam
The 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.

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tzury
if you want to read it in more elegant format, there you go:
[https://github.com/github/dmca/blob/master/2011-06-21-sony.m...](https://github.com/github/dmca/blob/master/2011-06-21-sony.markdown)

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keyle
The title doesn't quite make sense? "Sony officially 50%..."?

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spicyj
"Sony [is now] officially 50% …" – The "is now" is implied.

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omouse
Sony are dicks, this is news?

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swaits
For attempting to protect their IP by following the processes established in
current law?

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Produce
I suppose that you would have stood up for slave owners back when that was
legal? IP is an oxymoron and the law is wrong.

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swaits
We 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".

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burgerbrain
No, 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.

