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Qualcomm Retracts Its Massive DMCA Takedown Of Git Repositories
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Originally posted by lowflyer View Post... can we just issue a DMCA notice for the Microsoft website? Just for fun? And take it back after a week or so, saying "Sorry, was a mistake...".
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Originally posted by dragorth View PostAnd apparently he/she has enough authority to do some good.
Rather someone must have paid attention and taken an interest to what his or her minions are actually doing, which does not happen automatically. Authorities will often not care unless some alarms go off.
It could well be that we have to thank the press for it.Last edited by sdack; 08 July 2014, 12:31 PM.
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Originally posted by sdack View PostThis proves one thing... among all them Qualcomm employees there is at least one who is not quite as stupid as the rest.
"What the fsck was that? Get you shit together or we will never consider your hardware, and sue you for the damage in cost and reputation when you accuse us of copyright infringement and take down our source repositories!"
Sony is not a small player, and I do not think Qualcomm wants to piss them off more then necessary.
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Originally posted by phoronix View PostPhoronix: Qualcomm Retracts Its Massive DMCA Takedown Of Git Repositories
As a follow-up to the story about a Qualcomm DMCA notice taking down 100+ repositories of open-source code on GitHub, Qualcomm has changed course...
http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=MTczNzA
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Originally posted by deimios View PostCorrect me if I'm wrong (not from the US) but doesn't the DMCA takedown request have the line: you declare UNDER PENALTY OF PERJURY that the information in your notice is accurate and that you are the copyright owner or authorized to act on the copyright owner's behalf?
Doesn't this mean some steep fines for false takedown requests?
In other words, you need a smoking gun email where their CEO's are talking about how great it will be to send these illegal takedowns out the next day even though they know they are completely false.
Without that, they can just claim some automated system flagged it, or an employee mistakenly thought they should send these out, and legally they are in the clear.
Good luck getting anywhere with that, unless you've got millions of dollars to launch a full scale investigation and years-long legal attack.
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