GoPro Issues DMCA Takedown Over Negative Review

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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Re:Hilarious

[tibit]

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 :)

Re:Hilarious

[plover]

because sony never tried to sensor a negative review.

That must be because they never detected them.