Sony vs. Geohot

[Gh0sti]

as of 01/11/2011 Sony is officially fed up against the hacker George Hotz aka "Geohot"

Sony is now suing Geohot for jailbreaking and giving out the keys to the PS3

"Their MIB (lawyers in black suits) have landed, and the target is of course Mr. George Hotz aka "geohot"!

Recently "Geohot" had published the PS3 'root key' on his website, along with various 'signing tools' and samples of possible ways to install and run 'homebrew'

It seems Sony has decided they have had enough of this, and as of Jan. 11, 2011 have filed a lawsuit against Mr. George Hotz, which will be filed under the court docket of 'C 11-00167 JCS'!

We here at PSX-SCENE will be bringing you exclusive daily reports and filings from the Sony's Men-In-Black court case, and unlike Apple it seems Sony will not allow Geohot to walk all over their product with "Jailbreaking" the PS3 Console!"

http://psx-scene.com/forums/f6/sony-mib-te...rge-hotz-75467/

wow seriously

here is the Clerk Notice

http://psx-scene.com/forums/attachments/f6...erks-notice-pdf

 

[cacildo]

Sony overeacting.

Bad, bad decision.

Lawsuit against Geohot and the ability to remotely explode your PS3?

We´re not gonna take it.

 

[Joe88]

well geohotz did state a week ago in the BBC article he was afraid of sony suing him

 

[deathking]

he should open up level 2 just to spite them now

 

[ThatDudeWithTheFood]

he should open up level 2 just to spite them now

lv2 can already be patched and people even have distributed CFW with peek and poke the problem is sony did something to lv2 in 3.55 which is why you have to open up lv1

 

[Bladexdsl]

oh it's on now there will be retaliation!

 

[Terminator02]

well geohotz did state a week ago in the BBC article he was afraid of sony suing him

this

i wonder if this will impact geohot's activity in the ps3 scene

 

[DigitalDeviant]

aww he's removed the root keys/links to his cfw files from his site

(should've snagged them when I had the chance, not that I would've installed it anyway)

 

[TheDarkSeed]

So it begins.

If Sony indeed does have a killswitch for any Jailbroken Ps3. then they're in for a real shit storm

Edit:oops.

 

[o0ICE0o]

Shit. Is. Going. Down.

 

[deathking]

"6. 18 U.S.C. § 1030(a)(7)(B) – Intent to Extort
Finally, SCEA will likely prevail on its claim under §1030(a)(7)(B), which prohibits
“intent to extort from any person any money or other thing of value” by threatening “to obtain
information from a protected computer without authorization or in excess of authorization or
to impair the confidentiality of information obtained from a protected computer without
authorization or by exceeding authorized access.” Hotz violated this provision when, in the
same post in which the published SCEA’s Keys, he attempted to obtain from SCEA “a thing
of value” in the form of employment:[b] “if you want your next console to be secure, get in touch
with me[/b].” Bricker Decl. at ¶22, Exh. U.
To prevent further harm to SCEA, the Court should immediately enjoin Defendants’
unauthorized access of the PS3 System"

 

[DigitalDeviant]

aww he's removed the root keys/links to his cfw files from his site

(should've snagged them when I had the chance, not that I would've installed it anyway)

Sony has now been indicted, so that PSN can not be used

Where do you get that nonsense? Your source? oh wait your first post and its this.

My troll senses are tingling.

 

[ChuckBartowski]

Apparently numbers are illegal now.

 

[DigitalDeviant]

Apparently numbers are illegal now.

I suppose sony's claim is that its their intellectual property and the reliability of their brand(to developers) that is at stake here. Although they really botched their security.

 

[DigitalDeviant]

"6. 18 U.S.C. § 1030(a)(7)(B) – Intent to Extort
Finally, SCEA will likely prevail on its claim under §1030(a)(7)(B), which prohibits
“intent to extort from any person any money or other thing of value” by threatening “to obtain
information from a protected computer without authorization or in excess of authorization or
to impair the confidentiality of information obtained from a protected computer without
authorization or by exceeding authorized access.” Hotz violated this provision when, in the
same post in which the published SCEA’s Keys, he attempted to obtain from SCEA “a thing
of value” in the form of employment:[b] “if you want your next console to be secure, get in touch
with me[/b].” Bricker Decl. at ¶22, Exh. U.
To prevent further harm to SCEA, the Court should immediately enjoin Defendants’
unauthorized access of the PS3 System"

Egohotz is screwed then, or maybe not, he used lawyer up.

 

[Rydian]

They're not getting him for just posting the keys, please read the documents if you want to participate in the discussion.

Hotz violated this provision when, in the
same post in which the published SCEA’s Keys, he attempted to obtain from SCEA “a thing
of value” in the form of employment: “if you want your next console to be secure, get in touch
with me.”Talk about grasping at straws... Though I think they've got him for this, it's been shown that employment is taken into consideration as a value.

QUOTE

Defendants’ Circumvention Devices allow users to circumvent multiple TPMs in the
PS3 System – including access control, encryption and digital signature protections

Shit. They got him on bypassing TPMs, too

I'm no longer certain that he's going to come out even relatively safe. >>;

 

[Snailface]

So I guess he didn't get the job.

 

[DigitalDeviant]

They're not getting him for just posting the keys, please read the documents if you want to participate in the discussion.

Hotz violated this provision when, in the
same post in which the published SCEA’s Keys, he attempted to obtain from SCEA “a thing
of value” in the form of employment: “if you want your next console to be secure, get in touch
with me.”Talk about grasping at straws... Though I think they've got him for this, it's been shown that employment is taken into consideration as a value.

QUOTE

Defendants’ Circumvention Devices allow users to circumvent multiple TPMs in the
PS3 System – including access control, encryption and digital signature protections

Shit. They got him on bypassing TPMs, too

I'm no longer certain that he's going to come out even relatively safe. >>;

well I suppose Egohotz is a better name to describe him.

 

[zachpl]

There are sueing fail0verflow members too.

 

[DigitalDeviant]

There are sueing fail0verflow members too.

source?