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Sony Files Lawsuit Against PS3 Hacker GeoHot

Posted by timothy on from the poor-sportsmanship dept.

Kayot writes "George Hotz, or, as he is known on the internet, GeoHot, has been served court papers. Shorty after Team fail0verflow discovered faults in the PS3's TPMs, Geohot and others figured out how to extract the long sought after holy grail encryption keys. Apparently Sony is not pleased and is very keen on defending their poorly defended system with the US legal system. The basis is that GeoHot released programs that allow the signing of homebrew which can be used to make PSN-like games out of normal PS3 games. However GeoHot has never supported any form of piracy and in fact has taken a constant stance against it."

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  1. Come on Sony! by LSD-OBS · · Score: 5, Funny

    Sue that information right off the Internet! It'll work, we promise.

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    1. Re:Come on Sony! by Rogerborg · · Score: 4, Funny

      I'd love to see him not spend one red cent, let Sony present all their evidence, then as his defence say to the bench "Hell if I know, you're the ones getting paid to do the law-deciding stuff, you tell me how many billions I done owe them. Cause I ain't got nothing to give, no sir."

      Them folksy ways go down a lot better than some hi-falutin' city wiseguy lawyer-jabber anyways, I surely do reckon.

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    2. Re:Come on Sony! by s4m7 · · Score: 5, Funny

      I have no idea what you're saying, but you sure are charming, so I agree!

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  2. Re:Paraphrasing Jay and Silent Bob SB by LSD-OBS · · Score: 4, Funny

    Do you post as "magnoliafan" on moviepoopshoot.com?

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  3. Re:Just wondering by Sockatume · · Score: 4, Funny

    The DMCA makes it illegal, in the USA, to circumvent copy-prevention mechanisms on a device, or to remove copy-prevention from a piece of media, or to distribute equipment to do the same. There are a few enumerated exceptions. Initially, this meant encryption researchers could perform this work with the explicit consent of the manufacturer on the condition that they immediately inform the manufacturer if they are successful. There are now a few fair-use and accessibility provisions too. None of those apply in this case.

    In simple terms, it's illegal because they passed a new law to make it illegal.

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  4. Re:Paraphrasing Jay and Silent Bob SB by TheRaven64 · · Score: 3, Funny

    I tried to boycott Sony, but they haven't actually made anything I want for quite a while, so now I'm just passively not buying anything from them.

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