Carnegie Mellon Professor Challenges Sony

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Dave Touretzky, a Research Professor in the Computer Science Department and the Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition at Carnegie Mellon University, has challenged Sony's legal standing in the case against PS3 hackers and mirrored Geohot's site on the university's servers.

Here is a working mirror of Geohot.com with all the files and the private key, hosted by Carnegie Mellon's servers.

On top of that, there is also a mirror of Team failoverflow's github project page.

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Mirror of GeoHot's PS3 Jailbreak -- January 11, 2011

Our friends at Sony are having another bad day: i.e., doing something breathtakingly stupid, presumably because they don't know any better. This time they're suing George Hotz for publishing PS3 jailbreak information, as reported by EnGadget and Attack of the Fan Boy. Hotz's jailbreak allows PS3 owners to run the software of their choice on a machine they have legally purchased. His site is geohot.com.

Free speech (and free computing) rights exist only for those determined to exercise them. Trying to suppress those rights in the Internet age is like spitting in the wind.

We will help our friends at Sony understand this by mirroring the geohot jailbreak files at Carnegie Mellon.

GeoHot Mirror

Click here for usage instructions.

Note to Sony lawyers: No doubt you're eager to rack up another billable hour by sending legal threats to me and my university. Before you go down that unhappy road, check out what happened the last time a large corporation tried to stop the mirroring of technical information here: The Gallery of CSS Desycramblers. Have you learned anything in ten years?

David S. Touretzky
Research Professor of Computer Science
Carnegie Mellon University
Pittsburgh, PA 15213

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Now let's see them sue Carnegie Mellon University.

 

[monkat]

That's one cocky professor.

EDIT: if anyone edits that to say nutty professor, I will personally smack you.

 

[Zerousen]

Reminds me of my Social Studies teacher.

 

[8BitWalugi]

Hahaha! Now Sony should start thinking!

 

[MelodieOctavia]

I want to find this professor and shake his hand...and then ask him how interested he would be to collaborate with me on some homebrew

 

[Nathan Drake]

That's one nutty professor.

EDIT: if anyone edits that to say nutty professor, I will personally congratulate you on being so witty.

Do you see what I did there?

Also, that is an awesome thing that professor did. Go him!

 

[ShadowSoldier]

Wouldn't it be miraculously funny if Sony sue him, they get to court, and the professor reads fine print on one of his papers that he's using to defend himself, and he realizes he fucked up and goes "whoops."

 

[Bladexdsl]

give up sony you can't win hackers are everywhere you'll need to sue the earth to stop them all

 

[Forstride]

Haha...I should go downtown, pay CMU a visit, and congratulate him.

 

[8BitWalugi]

That's one nutty professor.

EDIT: if anyone edits that to say nutty professor, I will personally congratulate you on being so witty.

Do you see what I did there?

Also, that is an awesome thing that professor did. Go him!

 

[Slyakin]

Wow, just... wow.


Seems like something my Java teacher would do.

 

[Fear Zoa]

Well I guess this will finally tell us whether we can legally get away with hacks this day and age

This lawsuit means much more then just the future of ps3 homebrew....

Also professor unleashes his inner rebellious teenager ftw!

 

[chyyran]

Next, you see the keys everywhere on the net.
*Opens google*
*Sees ps3 keys as banner*

 

[KingVamp]

Next, you see the keys everywhere on the net.
*Opens google*
*Sees ps3 keys as banner*

Sony will then sue google

Anyway that would be mess up.

 

[Gitaroo]

Haha, they will probably talk to the school, then they school will tell him to take it down or loose his job.

 

[Necromanson]

I'm just curious what kind of grounds Sony feels they have to win this lawsuit. How can it be illegal to publish these keys? Is there a form you sign when you purchase a PS3 that says you won't reverse engineer your system or something?

Obviously not, so there is no reason why you couldn't hack into your own legally purchased system. So OBVIOUSLY there is no reason for Sony to sue. My only thought is that they feel they can strong arm the man until he caves in financially.

 

[DiscostewSM]

As interesting as this whole discussion about Sony vs Geohot is, it just got even more interesting.

 

[Rydian]

I'm just curious what kind of grounds Sony feels they have to win this lawsuit.

They list their reasons in the TRO, with precedent.

 

[Bladexdsl]

Next, you see the keys everywhere on the net.
*Opens google*
*Sees ps3 keys as banner*

Sony will then sue google

Anyway that would be mess up.

yeah that's pretty much sonys answer to everything do as we say or get your ass sued

 

[Skyline969]

Good to see people standing up for Geohot, especially someone as high-up as a university professor!
I managed to get the PUP, but don't we need to patch a firmware or something? I'm lost.