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GoPro Issues DMCA Takedown Over Negative Review

Posted by timothy on from the how-to-come-off-wrong dept.

skade88 writes "Ars is reporting that GoPro, the company that makes cameras used in extreme sports such as sky diving and swimming with dolphins has issued a DMCA take down notice on a review at DigitalRev that they do not like. See DMCA notice here. From the article: 'DigitalRev has a blog post up about the takedown, suggesting that most DMCA takedowns are "abusive" in nature. "We hope GoPro is not suggesting, with this DMCA notice, that camera reviews should be done only when they are authorized by the manufacturers," writes DigitalRev. "GoPro (or should we call you Go*ro instead?), we'd be interested to hear what you have to say" about the infringement notice.'"

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  1. Re:Hilarious by tibit · · Score: 5, Funny

    I called them and let them know that they won't be getting any more business from me. Easy peasy. They already had some sort of a ridiculous pre-scripted answer -- complete nonsense implying that there was copyrighted content that digitalrev used without permission. Well, the DMCA latter doesn't even raise the issue of anything copyrighted being used illegally, merely alleged trademark law violations. Personally, I want them to apologize, and they better be quick about it. I've had lots of fun recently with Sony Alpha cameras, and I may just get a SONY HDR-AS15 out of spite. It is a slower camera than Hero 2, but hey, Streisand effect FTW :)

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  2. Re:GoPro sucks by Anne_Nonymous · · Score: 4, Funny

    4. GoPro traveled back in time to save Hitler from temporal assassins.

  3. Re:Hilarious by Lawrence_Bird · · Score: 4, Funny

    As a snowboarder, please accept this bit of advice: don't get one, they are no longer cool. I have seen everything from 4 year olds to 80 year olds with those fucking horribly ugly GoPro cams on their helmets this winter. Every now and then you'll see a Contour which are at least a little less obvious and dorky.

    But honestly, unless you are at least well advanced in your sport, spare your friends the home videos.

  4. Re:Hilarious by plover · · Score: 5, Funny

    because sony never tried to sensor a negative review.

    That must be because they never detected them.

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