Sony vs. Geohot

[Joe88]

There are sueing fail0verflow members too.

source?

I think at psxscene
the documents geohotz released for people to see

 

[zachpl]

SONY COMPUTER ENTERTAINMENT AMERICA LLC
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA
SAN FRANCISCO DIVISION
SONY COMPUTER ENTERTAINMENT
AMERICA LLC, a Delaware limited liability
company,
Plaintiff,
v.
GEORGE HOTZ; HECTOR MARTIN
CANTERO; SVEN PETER; and DOES 1 through
100,
Defendants

http://geohot.com/Motion%20For%20TRO.pdf

KaKaRoToKS

Sony suing 103 people? wtf.. this is 'scary'.. oh well, if they want to loose more money in lawsuits..
half a minute ago via web

 

[Snailface]

Interesting strategy. Instead of cutting the head off the hack, they're cutting the head off the hacker. (

'ed by sony)

 

[Rydian]

I. INTRODUCTION
Defendants George Hotz, “Bushing,” Hector Cantero, Sven Peter and “Segher”
(collectively, “Defendants”) are computer hackers.
1
Working individually and in concert with
one another, Defendants recently bypassed effective technological protection measures
(“TPMs”) employed by plaintiff Sony Computer Entertainment America LLP (“SCEA”) in its
proprietary PlayStation®3 computer entertainment system (“PS3 System”). Through the

Whoops, I made a mistake earlier because I skimmed. I assumed by "TPM" they meant "Trusted Platform Module", not "Technological Protection Measure". Not so sure if they can easily sure for it now (though their other points may work).

 

[Terminator02]

that link to the document on geohotz's site takes forever, use this instead
http://fail0verflow.com/motion_for_tro.pdf
and the proof is right on http://fail0verflow.com/

 

[zachpl]

Yay, I tipped engadget and they put an article up. XD

 

[deathking]

We need to "jailbreak" Geohot from Sony now...

 

[m3rox]

Meh, geohot had this coming to him. He knew this would enable piracy, he didn't do it for "Linux" as he claims, and I think the majority of people know it (whether or not they will openly admit it).

 

[DigitalDeviant]

Meh, geohot had this coming to him. He knew this would enable piracy, he didn't do it for "Linux" as he claims, and I think the majority of people know it (whether or not they will openly admit it).

which is why Egohotz is a better name for him. He gives failoverlow a bad name.

 

[Canonbeat234]

Sony is using lawsuit barrage!
Geohot is hit, it does critical damage!! Geohot uses.......................escape!
Geohot move is unsuccessful.
Sony uses lawyers!
Geohot is hit directly, Geohot damage is in the red. Geohot uses................struggle!
Geohot move is used, does little to Sony, he damages himself.
Geohot faints, Sony gets pwnage exp!

 

[Linkpal]

I don't think Geohotz can afford a decent lawyer. I hope that whatever attorney he gets, it's a decent one, because he's gonna need it. One man and a group of hackers against a huge corporation doesn't sound so hot. Can't wait to see how this turns out, but I hope it's in the hacker's favor (especially since bushing is another under suit).

 

[Sheimi]

The shit just hit the fan...

Well, I wonder how this will turn out

 

[Dangy]

Revenge tastes best cold. :3

 

[_Chaz_]

Someone exploited a design flaw that Sony paid people to fix.
Sony got mad, Sony cried, Sony is telling.

 

[Zerox8610]

Copypastefrumotherthread:
If they want, they can win. I'm guessing there will be a deal between Geohot and Sony.
Sony has a team of top dollar lawyers. Geohot.... idk how much the guy makes, but it can't be enough to defend against that...

agree disagree?

 

[Nathan Drake]

Sony is really unhappy. The sheer amount of suing for some very odd reasons is just showing how desperate they are to try to get something back for what they have inevitably lost now. Only thing I was worried about when the initial break happened was the possibility of developer support being lost due to the incredible piracy to go with.

Sony is just looking at the big picture I suppose, but they are going about it entirely the wrong way. Hitting the sue button 103 times is pretty over the top.

 

[Snailface]

Overheard at Sony:

Geohot, you've earned an Achievement! "Just got served"

Hopefully, the community will continue awarding Achievements to $ony in response.

Edit: Lol,

'ed by geohot (next post)

 

[Rafinesque]

Geohot just put the CFW and encryption key back up on his site...

 

[Zerox8610]

Geohot just put the CFW and encryption key back up on his site...

He never took it down?
They are sue...ing... him (idk, suing? sueing?)
It wasn't just a cease and desist order

 

[_Chaz_]

Did he receive a cease and desist order? Or was this totally out of the blue?