Gitorious Fights Back Sony
 

Sony has been busy last few days, taking down the popular PS3 dev's GitHubs. In response too the removal of Githubs, the PS3 devs switched over too Gitorius - a site similar to Github except hosted in Norway. Well Sony a few days ago also sent in the DMCA take down notices to the Gitorious, but one problem the US law does not apply, its the Norwegian law, and the Gitorious team replied back with just that. In response to Sonys DMCA take down notices Gitorious today posted this on their blog:

Re: Demand for removal of claimed copyright infringing content from Gitorious.org

This is in reply to your notification of United States Copyright Law Violations at Listed URLs, dated February 1st 2011. As we confirmed via email yesterday, the content was taken down from gitorious.org yesterday at 3.18PM CET.

Your claim made reference to US law, which is not applicable in Norway. When removing the content from our server placed in Norway, we did so to avoid being in violation with Norwegian law, to the degree that Norwegian and US copyright law is compatible.

However, it is unreasonable, and in conflict with basic legal principles, to assume someone as guilty until proven innocent. Allowing any third party to demand the removal of content on gitorious.org based on unproven claims of copyright infringement would assume any gitorious.org user would need to prove his innoncence under Norwegian law. This is unacceptable to us.

Our Infringement Notice Policy (http://en.gitorious.org/infringement_policy/) requires any Infringement Notice to include:

- An identification of the intellectual property right claimed to have been infringed

Since your letter of yesterday contained no reference to Norwegian law we kindly ask that you prove that the content is in fact in violation of Norwegian law. We will not act on further Infringement Notices related to this content until SCEA provides a Norwegian court order that deems the content in question as being in violation of Norwegian law.

Gitorious wants to make it absolutely clear that we have no agenda relating to the repositories in question. Our initial response to this notice was motivated by the fact that Gitorious could possibly be held accountable for not responding should this content be deemed illegal (with reference to ?Ehandelsloven? §18). We object deeply to any violation of the basic legal principle of being innocent until proven guilty. This is why we have passed the ball back to Sony.

We hope you understand that it is not in Gitorious?, or the majority of its users?, best interest to pick this fight. We don?t have the resources nor necessary domain knowledge to assess the legality of all of our projects, which is why we have terms of service that state that users carry this responsibility.

What do you think Sony's next move will be?

Thanks, moved to front page

$ony's next move... stomp their feet and cry :thefinger: :aetsch:

What goes around comes around
 

I thinks Sony is ****ing in the wind..... Stop crying Sony.....it's ok for you to sell us something with a feature on it....then at your lesure remove it! You disverve evrything you get! I was a big Sony fan for years! But not anymore :)


I will never, ever buy anything of you again! So when you bring your ps4 out with it's tripple 5000 core cell BE..... I wont spend a penny on it! You have lost a lot of custom and support....

Did you sack the guy who thought of otherOS?

Indian givers = Sony :thefinger:

Too Cool!
 

These last few months have been way too exciting!!

Boycott Norway until they change the law to "everybody is guilty until proven innocent :secruity:" like it is in almost the rest of the world?? ;)

Cina
 

Don't know what would be the next ''stupid'' move of Sony ..
since they already proven to be really stupid ..
hope next git repositories will reside in CINA
so Sony would be definitively out of this stupid catch up game they started against their own interest, because since ever any system that doesn't allow piracy will just die ..
any known successful system in the world is piracy friendly..
the others are died already or going to die
:D

p.s.
maybe sony would just keep selling PS2 instead of PS3 and PS4 .. LOL!!!

haha very smart

what you talking the ps2 has be hack long before the ps3 every has.

TBH I will not be surprised if (s)mony approach Norwegian court even with the knowledge that they might not succeed, let's wait and see.