Comments on: GoPro sends fraudulent DMCA notice to site that ran a negative review of its products

By: Calife

Calife — Mon, 25 Mar 2013 02:18:00 +0000

Doesn’t GoPro know that web users hate companies who use DMCA (even if it’s legit)?? Big stinking faux pas! I want to see a full apology on their website like Apple was forced to in the Samsung EU court case.

By: HammerheadFistpunch

HammerheadFistpunch — Sun, 24 Mar 2013 07:18:00 +0000

I’d already decided against the GoPro. The Drift HD Ghost looks good, and some folks that use it in a similar fashion (helmet mount) have good things to say about it, over the GoPro, specifically in regards to mounting.

By: Pjay (Patti) Pender

Pjay (Patti) Pender — Sat, 23 Mar 2013 23:52:00 +0000

As is I needed another reason to hate GoPro…

By: Pjay (Patti) Pender

Pjay (Patti) Pender — Sat, 23 Mar 2013 23:51:00 +0000

I’d feel guilty foisting that piece of crap on someone else. It almost never records. I’d be a complete ass if I did that to someone else.

By: Pjay (Patti) Pender

Pjay (Patti) Pender — Sat, 23 Mar 2013 23:49:00 +0000

GoPro isn’t flat. It’s very close to a cube in shape–very awkward. and I can’t trust my GoPro in “hairy situations.” It almost always fails and there is no recording when I’m done. GoPro is way overhyped. It’s a crappy camera.

By: Pjay (Patti) Pender

Pjay (Patti) Pender — Sat, 23 Mar 2013 23:44:00 +0000

There is a screw mount. I hate my GoPro, It’s a steaming pile of non-working crap, but there is a screw mount. I have one.

By: Pjay (Patti) Pender

Pjay (Patti) Pender — Sat, 23 Mar 2013 23:39:00 +0000

I liked my Looxie before I accidentally smashed it. (I hate my GoPro. It seldom works.)

By: Pjay (Patti) Pender

Pjay (Patti) Pender — Sat, 23 Mar 2013 23:36:00 +0000

Lucky for you. Mine doesn’t work, and they have replaced it with another non-working camera. $300 camera has successfully made 2 videos in nine months. Big steaming pile of crap if you ask me. The Sony could not possibly be worse.

By: Pjay (Patti) Pender

Pjay (Patti) Pender — Sat, 23 Mar 2013 23:34:00 +0000

Well, real life owner/user of GoPro here and here’s MY review: It sucks! Mine sits in a drawer because it generally fails in the middle of recording a video so I just use a more reliable but less attractive Kodak waterproof sport cam. GoPro is AWFUL to deal with if your camera, like mine, doesn’t work. I also liked Looxie, but mine blew off my motorcycle and was destroyed. HUGE waste of money and grossly overhyped. REALLY crappy camera.

By: Pjay (Patti) Pender

Pjay (Patti) Pender — Sat, 23 Mar 2013 23:28:00 +0000

Looxie is another good alternative. That’s why I record rides, BTW.

By: Pjay (Patti) Pender

Pjay (Patti) Pender — Sat, 23 Mar 2013 23:25:00 +0000

Consider Looxie. Just be sure you mount it securely. I loved mine until it just blew off its mount on my motorcycle and shattered on the pavement. That or a cheap Kodak waterproof sport cam and make your own mounts. I have a GoPro, but it seldom works right anyway. Since my Looxie blew away I just use a Kodak waterproof sport I got open box really cheap from Amazon.

By: Pjay (Patti) Pender

Pjay (Patti) Pender — Sat, 23 Mar 2013 23:22:00 +0000

Yup! I bought a GoPro to record motorcycle rides through scenic areas. I hate it. So far I’ve had it nine months and I’ve successfully made two videos with it and I’ve missed a large number of beautiful rides’ video because it failed for one reason or another. GoPro has replaced it once, but they are horrific to deal with so now the camera mostly sits in a drawer. I first tried a Looxie camera in it’s place. It made great videos, was small and lightweight, and easy to use. A little too light and small it turned out, and on the third day I had it the wind just blew it off its mount and it hit the pavement behind me and shattered into 1000 pieces. So next I bought one of those Kodak sport/waterproof models–open box from Amazon and it was dirt cheap–and hacked my own mounts with what I could find around the house and at the craft store, and some Sugru and it’s GREAT! I don’t recommend anyone wasting money on GoPro. Biggest waste of $300 in my life.

By: traalfaz

traalfaz — Sat, 23 Mar 2013 13:56:00 +0000

Watch out if you buy the Sony. They still have memory stick slots in addition to the SD slot.

I had one and it took me over an hour and a call to Sony to figure out that the MicroSD slot is also a MicroMemoryStick slot, you put one in one direction, and the other in the other direction. On my camera the only clue to which way to put it in is a very hard to see icon embossed into the memory cover. I assumed that if the card goes in, it’s in the right way – that’s how all other products work. But on the Sony the SD card will go in either way, it’s just that only one way works. The other way gives you a “memory card error.”

I have a GoPro now.

By: traalfaz

traalfaz — Sat, 23 Mar 2013 13:53:00 +0000

Actually I had the Sony camera, bought a GoPro, and sold the Sony after comparing them. The Sony may be better for some things, but for my use the GoPro is hands down the winner. I’m probably going to buy another GoPro soon.

By: voxnulla

voxnulla — Sat, 23 Mar 2013 11:40:00 +0000

I’d advice everybody to sell their Gopro gear. This way you get rid of a tainted product and you will prevent a few new units to be sold.

By: TheOven

TheOven — Fri, 22 Mar 2013 22:54:00 +0000

I love them too – for the most part. One thing I HATE about them is, like Sony, they love proprietary. Try to find a single GoPro screw mount. Y’know, the mount the rest of the camera world has used for ages, not good enough for GoPro.

By: TheOven

TheOven — Fri, 22 Mar 2013 22:53:00 +0000

then they lose even more customers?

By: TheOven

TheOven — Fri, 22 Mar 2013 22:51:00 +0000

ethical corporations = oxymoron

By: Cowicide

Cowicide — Fri, 22 Mar 2013 21:13:00 +0000

Let GoPro know what you think about this on their Facebook page here:

https://www.facebook.com/gopro

Be sure and show them links to these articles.

By: oasisob1

oasisob1 — Fri, 22 Mar 2013 19:37:00 +0000

A buddy of mine brought his Kodak sport/waterproof camera to ToughMudder. It is a little handheld videorecorder, not all cool chest straps and headmounts, but it performed admirably through 13 miles of rain and mud. He kept it running video the entire time, dunked it in water, mud and what we think might have been an unhealthy percentage of naturally processed hay — it never faltered. If you don’t care about the ‘sexeh mounting options’ factor, it and similar cameras are also worth a look.

By: beforewepost

beforewepost — Fri, 22 Mar 2013 17:47:00 +0000

>if the review is to be trusted,…
Key phrase there. There are way too many “pay to play” reviews out there that you really have to look harder than going on a single site’s opinion.

The Go-Pro Hero is getting good reviews from several credible sites.

By: Kaleberg

Kaleberg — Fri, 22 Mar 2013 17:33:00 +0000

This is another argument for a “three strikes” law. Three false take down notices should get you barred from asking for take downs permanently. (You’d still be able to get a court order, but not a courtesy take down.)

By: jgs

jgs — Fri, 22 Mar 2013 16:58:00 +0000

Aye, there’s the rub.

By: rtb61

rtb61 — Fri, 22 Mar 2013 16:15:00 +0000

How ever who is behaving better or worse has nothing to do with the outcome. A review that the majority would miss is now receiving much wider attention.
What were Go-amateur thinking, greed driven stupidity strikes again.

By: jhoosier

jhoosier — Fri, 22 Mar 2013 14:57:00 +0000

Same here. Now I might actually buy something from Sony.

By: Hubert Figuière

Hubert Figuière — Fri, 22 Mar 2013 14:27:00 +0000

The review was actually favorable to GoPro. That’s probably the worse part of all the story.

By: Nathaniel

Nathaniel — Fri, 22 Mar 2013 13:39:00 +0000

This is the same thing that happened with the Games Workshop and Space Marine case. They issued a DMCA takedown notice for a “perceived” trademark infringement.

By: howaboutthisdangit

howaboutthisdangit — Fri, 22 Mar 2013 12:17:00 +0000

Seems to me that the ISPs could be (or at least should be) charged as accomplices in any legal case that results from a fraudulent takedown notice.

If ISPs are going to police their paid customers on behalf of Big Content, then the reverse should also be true.

By: howaboutthisdangit

howaboutthisdangit — Fri, 22 Mar 2013 12:11:00 +0000

That was a big black eye for Sony. Ironic, since Sony once fought against CD copy protection, back when D.A.T. was first coming on the scene.

I’ve also been burned by Sony’s lack of adherence to established standards; hardware which require drivers where competing products do not, products engineered to use only Sony power supplies or cables, etc.

More and more companies are doing similar things, and my purchasing blacklist keeps growing, but there are still some worthy companies out there.

By: Saltine

Saltine — Fri, 22 Mar 2013 12:01:00 +0000

Another “me too”; I was planning on getting one to capture my motorcycle rides so that I could fantasize on lunch break of escaping my job…. But since they’re being such asshats AND since the very same instance of asshattery provides me with a better alternative, well…. easy decision to make.