Sony officially 50% of all GitHub's DMCA notices

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Post by ecaron » Wed, Jun 22, 2011, 12:20 AM UTC

Sony officially 50% of all GitHub's DMCA notices
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Re: Sony officially 50% of all GitHub's DMCA notices

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Post by benologist » Wed, Jun 22, 2011, 12:58 AM UTC

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.

Re: Sony officially 50% of all GitHub's DMCA notices

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Post by jevinskie » Wed, Jun 22, 2011, 1:37 AM UTC

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

Re: Sony officially 50% of all GitHub's DMCA notices

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Post by keyle » Wed, Jun 22, 2011, 1:44 AM UTC

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

Re: Sony officially 50% of all GitHub's DMCA notices

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Post by hartror » Wed, Jun 22, 2011, 1:46 AM UTC

benologist wrote: post #2

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…

There 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.

Re: Sony officially 50% of all GitHub's DMCA notices

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Post by shasta » Wed, Jun 22, 2011, 1:58 AM UTC

keyle wrote: post #4

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

Sony officially the whole fleshlight?!

Re: Sony officially 50% of all GitHub's DMCA notices

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Post by tzury » Wed, Jun 22, 2011, 2:29 AM UTC

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...

Re: Sony officially 50% of all GitHub's DMCA notices

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Post by 46Bit » Wed, Jun 22, 2011, 2:44 AM UTC

benologist wrote: post #2

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…

More 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.

Re: Sony officially 50% of all GitHub's DMCA notices

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Post by henryw » Wed, Jun 22, 2011, 2:47 AM UTC

benologist wrote: post #2

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…

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

Re: Sony officially 50% of all GitHub's DMCA notices

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Post by omouse » Wed, Jun 22, 2011, 3:04 AM UTC

Sony are dicks, this is news?