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Seems like the cool GoPro company is just another company after all. I honestly thought GoPro were different from other companies, grounded and in touch with what their customers actually want but after hearing of this my view of the company I admired has been forever tarnished. Even if this DMCA was just an accident, it's a pretty big accident. As pointed out in another comment GoPro didn't actually supply a valid DMCA request, they didn't cite what exactly was being infringed upon and instead spoke of trademarks which are separate. Are Hacker News and everyone here who mention GoPro going to get DMCA notices too for using their trademarks under fair-use?

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> Hacker News and everyone here who mention GoPro going to get DMCA notices too for using their trademarks under fair-use?

No, clearly not. They were incredibly incompetent in both the writing of the takedown and their attempt at a public PR response. However, it's pretty clear they're not on a mission to police the usage of their name, someone too 'smart' for his/her own good probably just thought of a misguided idea to try to tackle grey market resellers.

This company is supposedly rolling in dough, with a stake from FoxConn and talk of an upcoming IPO. Why don't they have (or use if they do have) proper legal and PR resources?

So where else is it amateur hour at this company? Is someone competent doing their accounting, or is their comptroller also their head of social media or something?

The recent launch of the Hero 3 was pretty terrible. The CEO had to issue a public apology. [1] Plenty of problems that made the cameras unusable.

They are now basically an amateur camera that has been well marketed unfortunately.

[1] https://www.facebook.com/gopro/posts/271125813016872

As a GoPro Hero 3 owner I know all too well of the botched launch of the Hero 3. It was almost rendered useless until they acknowledged the issues and released updated firmware to fix the issues. What makes matters worse in that situation is I and many others contact their customer support for help and they would not acknowledge it was a known or widespread problem until obviously things reached boiling point. The camera is much better now, but having said that it is obvious the company is being run by the wrong people.

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