Gitorious responds to Sony DMCA takedown notice

http://blog.gitorious.org/2011/02/03/an-update-on-the-sony-dmca-issue/

by augustl • 15 years ago

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rmc• 15 years ago

They basically said "OK we'll take it down, but we're in Norway, so that law doesn't apply. Please prove this was copyright infringment".

They should have just said (potentially in Norwegian) "We're in Norway, that law doesn't apply. Please contact us if we are breaking Norwegian law"

ErrantX4• 15 years ago

Their post yesterday [1] notes that accordign to Norwegian law they have to take down the repositories:

Norwegian law commands us to respond to such notices by removing potentially copyright infringing content until it’s legality can be fully clarified.

I think this is a classy response; they took down the repos because they kinda had to. But now appear prepared to fight the corner for their users, and if Sony doesn't give them something solid... I guess they'll put the repos back up.

Calm and cool.

1. http://blog.gitorious.org/2011/02/02/gitorious-receives-dmca...

mati• 15 years ago

That's crap, the law in this case is like "guilty until proven otherwise", isn't it?

jwatzman• 15 years ago

Mirror of the various git repositories which were in the ps3free tree (some of which are still up and some of which are gone): http://rapidshare.com/files/446044378/ps3free.tar.bz2

Gitorious responds to Sony DMCA takedown notice

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