Sony sends out DMCA Takedown Notices!

[The Central Scrutinizer]

Soon after Sony won in SF with a TRO against Mr. Hotz regarding the 'metldr keys', their MIB Team started the next step and have issued DMCA Takedown Notices to a number of various 'scene' developers that had code either mirrored or stored on their GITHUB's or websites!

First Professor Carnegie Mellon who had 'mirrored' geohot's original keys open door site, took his down to be on the 'safe' side of the action:

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.

Then early this morning DMCA takedowns started to get received by the various scene developers, first kmeaw, a good coder behind a working CFW, got one:

<< kmeaw > I have just received a DMCA takedown notice

Next graf_chokolo, a now world-famous coder for his wonderful PS3 'decryption' skills, posted the following on Xorloser's Blog, that his [notranslate]GIT[/notranslate] has been taken down by Sony:

graf_chokolo says:
January 29, 2011 at 2:04 am

SONY took down my [notranslate]GIT[/notranslate] 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 :-)

And recently KaKaRoToKS has tweet'ed that he also has gotten a DMCA notice:

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

UPDATE: Github has posted a copy of the takedown notice they received from Sony HERE. Keep in mind that Github is based out of California and is, therefore, subject to the TRO.

[Digital-Spooker]

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.

Seems like he's just keeping himself (and his paying students, and his employer) out of how water, expect it to be back up in a week or two.

[Crack Kills]

<< kmeaw > I have just received a DMCA takedown notice

[subcon959]

I noticed that both Kakaroto and Kmeaw have removed sensitive files from their git repos. Have they received official notices or is it just precautionary?

[Anony]

They have received warnings from what I've heard.

[subcon959]

That sucks. I guess it was to be expected but I didn't think Sony would bother since they can't hope to contain the problem at this stage. What are they gonna do, serve everyone on the internet?

[kingjoko]

even more reason to release geohots special keys !

[10mm]

It just surprises me that hackers need their own site for putting out their work. I'm sure there many other ways to get their 'stuff' out there without having a direct link back to them.

[popcorn900]

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[ModIT]

Sony is pushing their hosters to remove the files - because they are out of range for sony (russia and canada)....