Sony Files Lawsuit Against PS3 Hacker GeoHot

Posted by timothy on Wednesday January 12, 2011 @12:59AM 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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What the hell? by BigSes · 2011-01-12 02:31 · Score: 0, Redundant

Sony is not pleased and is very keen on defending their poorly defended system with the US legal system.
Can we just stop this already? I'm tired of this terminology being used when it comes to PS3's protection schemes. It only took, what, more than 4 years for anyone to break through. I wouldn't call that POORLY DEFENDED.