Sony Sends Out DMCA Takedown Notices

Published on 01-28-2011 03:50 PM

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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!

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For those of you unfamiliar with DMCA takedown notices, the DMCA or Digital Millennium Copyright Act, is a set of laws in the United States that allows company's to protect their digital copyrights. Sony is sending out letters and emails to the websites which host these developers projects, such as gitHub. Since these websites don't want to get sued over one user's suspected violations, they end up removing the content in question, generally without even investigating.

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, before even receiving a notice.

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.

< kmeaw > I have just received a DMCA takedown notice

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

graf_chokolo says:

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:

Looks like github has received DMCA takedown and my repository are now unavailable Twitter

Source: PSX-Scene

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33 Comments

vocalists - 01-28-2011, 04:11 PM
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too bad for them -_- hope they still continue to hack ps3!!!

kmeaws github is deleted T_T

lorvar-PSG - 01-28-2011, 04:16 PM
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Sony, it will all come around sooner than you think. You will lose this court battle, and you will look like the asses you truly are.

Thorn - 01-28-2011, 04:17 PM
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ahhh well time to go anonimous people then theres no law suits no DCMAs from russia webhosts think about it who needs EPEENIS lol

BillyG - 01-28-2011, 04:22 PM
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Anonymous is the way

feylito285-PSG - 01-28-2011, 04:23 PM
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Sony is scary dam they scare me I look at my ps3 now and don't eve recognize it.

like a different spirit in my living room. I think I am going to bring out my 69 usb loaded wii games. Yea I bought them all just cant recall all the people I lend them too, good thing I have a backup of them hu!

the scene had a good run, like sony had one before all the cfw's came out and now they are pushing hard to the finish line but that is all it is a run. the scene will get theirs up on sony and we will be on ocfw. I wish those guys were a bit more tactical, if they had kept it all real underground and anonymous, sony would not know where to begin.

spider_007 - 01-28-2011, 04:36 PM
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what does this mean? can they disable your ps or something?
aren't we safe anymore?
could someone explain to me what this DMCA thing is?

greetings spider

grandy - 01-28-2011, 04:37 PM
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Originally Posted by spider_007

what does this mean? can they disable your ps or something?
aren't we safe anymore?
could someone explain to me what this DMCA thing is?

greetings spider

It is the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, it means Sony is sending out nasty letters/emails to the websites where developers host their projects. Then sites like github and other places remove the dev's work completely because its not worth the risk to their site.

spider_007 - 01-28-2011, 04:45 PM
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Originally Posted by grandy

It is the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, it means Sony is sending out nasty letters/emails to the websites where developers host their projects. Then sites like github and other places remove the dev's work completely because its not worth the risk to their site.

ooh so we aren't in danger? ok lol, thnx.
Will they ever be able to catch us using CFW?
And if they do they will probably disable psn for us so we can't play online anymore

greetings spider

LSTR - 01-28-2011, 04:56 PM
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i just wished that the devs focused more on other hombrew rather than BM you only need on at the end of the day not 10 of the fukn things but yeah thats my 2 cents

feylito285-PSG - 01-28-2011, 05:13 PM
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YES I did it cfw 3.56 wait, I am ahead of my time I'll pull back lol.....

this shit is so epic and I can't believe there aren't protesters out in LA against this shit the courts need to see that kind of effect. do you think that judge reads our posts.

ch13696 - 01-28-2011, 05:13 PM
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Good thing I managed to back up all the CFW and the 3.55 OFW. Better be safe than sorry.

NightmareLuffy - 01-28-2011, 05:21 PM
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it seems that with this CFW could come to an end. Or is a dev willing to go through all the shit GH is going through now? I don't believe it is worth. So let's face it. CFW could die before it really got started... Unöess a mysterious guy in the shadows will face all psychological attacks from Sony and risk being hunted down...

RazorX - 01-28-2011, 05:23 PM
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guys stupid question but i live in the uk does any of this effect me, with cfw and all that?

feylito285-PSG - 01-28-2011, 05:25 PM
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oh yea and all the games play great on cfw3.55 i could give a f***bout psn or internet browsing on my ps3 that is what my Alienware is for. (can you say game fly). i have to admit that netfilx was nice but I have it on my softmod wii and for that I didn't have to update the system lol. I just wish they had been more tactical that is all, I am upset with those guys for that reason and that reason only. they need a manager lol.
someone that only cares bout keeping them around for a long time lol. you know like the oracle. lol they mean so much to me

ISOHaven-PSG - 01-28-2011, 05:25 PM
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So...they simply take them down and put them right back up somewhere else.

I think it's hilarious that Sony is spending so much time and money on this and in the end will get nowhere!

orange12 - 01-28-2011, 05:34 PM
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i joined this site 10mins ago just to say . . . . i hope somebody . . . anybody (preferably george hotz) comes back and RAPES YOU UP THE ASS YOU FAGS !!!!!!! the thing i am pissed about is how they can CHANGE there COPYRIGHT law WHEN EVER THE HELL THEY WANT . . . what kind of bs is that ? . . . dont worry my nooby friends readinng this, some 1 will hack the ps3 on the new cfw . . . . besides its only 2 files thats preventing CFW . . . .

Darkman-PSG - 01-28-2011, 05:42 PM
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Originally Posted by ISOHaven

So...they simply take them down and put them right back up somewhere else.

I think it's hilarious that Sony is spending so much time and money on this and in the end will get nowhere!

Not really I think you and evreybody is MISSING THE WHOLE POINT!!!

Lets just say you owned a billion dollar company and hackers are going to seriously screw your system to play free games... THINK of the MILLIONS that are going to be lost!!!

If you were Sony you would do the same damn thing... take out evrey single hacker... now will it stop hacking in general OH HELL NO!!! but to take out the biggest key players (Geohot,Failoverflow,Kakarato and etc..etc..) OH HELL YES!!!

So dont expect the ps3 scene to grow...

REMEMBER when dark alex left???? up to this DATE there havent been a 6.00m33-3 and FOR GET ABOUT THE DAMN KEYS!!! if a super smart dev cant understand it.. they are USELESS!!!

cant really blame SONY for this... so you have to understand I am for hacking like the next guy... but dont mess with Sony

crispism - 01-28-2011, 06:09 PM
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Originally Posted by lorvar

Sony, it will all come around sooner than you think. You will lose this court battle, and you will look like the asses you truly are.

lol your so stupid you think your all cool acting like your some faggot fighting someone but the trueth is you loose either way cause if ps3 goes down cause of these hacks that means there is no more games or anything and if the custom firmware fails then well you will just be back to saving money for one used game for a month...poor stupid bastard.

Cagutinho - 01-28-2011, 06:26 PM
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Some people just cant understand.
Sony fear what they can lose because of the PIRACY ! And custom firmware leads to backup systems, and those, leads to piracy.

I dont think neither its right to forbid the hackers to access they own legally paid system, but I can understand also the Sony side.

I just think they, even if it will not be easy for them, they should accept the cfws by the law. BUT they should ban those who access the PSN from a modified system, after all, to enter the PSN you have to accept their rules, and one of them is "do not modify your system". So in this way people will have the right of a choice... backups and homebrews OR online system.

Im sure lots of people would choose backups and homebrews, but also, lots would choose online system, exactly what happens in Xbox360.

But of course, Sony will try to fight against it till the end, after all this is their business... but i think in the end, will finish like I said, even if im not so sure anymore.

L4w3s - 01-28-2011, 06:45 PM
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So if this only affects people in the U.S. does that mean I am safe to anything like what George Hotz did? If I can, oh I would screw Sony over if I knew what I was doing!