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Sony Lawyers Expand Dragnet, Targeting Anybody Posting PS3 Hack
markass530 writes with this excerpt from Wired:
"Sony is threatening to sue anybody posting or 'distributing' the first full-fledged jailbreak code for the 4-year-old PlayStation 3 gaming console. What's more, the company is demanding that a federal judge order Google to surrender the IP addresses and other identifying information (PDF) of those who have viewed or commented about the jailbreak video on a private YouTube page. The game maker is also demanding that Twitter provide the identities of a host of hackers who first unveiled a limited version of the hack in December."
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of those criticizing Sony?
The problem with slashdot is that most of its users were bullied and stuffed into lockers as kids!
Would you like fries with that?
I still have mine, sounds like we need someone to post code snippets on the back of a T-Shirt, with "only Sony wants Root" on the front, and the proceeds can go to legal defense.
Well, If we are making outlandish requests... I demand that a federal judge order Sony to turn over a detailed list of all financial transactions for the company and its 150,000+ staff. I just want to make sure that they are not doing anything illegal with their property (their money).
Fair's fair.
Sony is going to run into a full Streisand Effect backlash with this new attempt to expunge the net of any trace of the very mention of this hack existing. And what is it about asking for the IP address of those who VIEWED it? Are they planning to go the RIAA route and send blackmail letters to those people, threatening to sue them for millions unless they pay several thousands of dollars?
IS it me or is this totally crazy? Even people who has commented? what is going on here?
Dont they need a cort order and then make the police get ip adresses if anything at all?
This is scaring me...
The only Playstation I ever had got sold 3 years ago, and now I have absolutely no interesting in purchasing ANY whatsoever Sony product.
Don't need to bother with my IP address, if I still had a sony product, I would throw it into the garbage right now.
Did something like this go down when the HD-DVD key was found? Didn't it just cause MORE publicity, or something that's now know as the Streisand Effect? Good luck with that Sony, really.
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hey sony, way to go - with that attitude i'm done buying your products! i'm sure i'm not the first one.
With Netlix trying to go away from mailing out DVD's I don't see any reason to fire the old bird up now...... what's that you can play games on it, nonsense!
For years I have been planning to get a PS3, but I'll be damned if I'm gonna give a penny to a company that is going to use the money to sue me and my peers... Guess I'll just have to buy used.
Sony fails to understand that once information is available it is impossible to remove it again. Not even the US government or the former KGB have succeeded and now Sony think they can do it?
And in the process they will alienate any customer base they already have, most likely.
Once you start suing your customers for using your own product, the end is not far away, just take a look at the music industry.
Gee Sony, guess I won't buy one of your TVs to replace my aging flat screen. With over the top demands like the you can go fuck yourself.
Hello Sony, if I paid $400 for a PS3, tell me, Who owns the console?
The answer is: MEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE. This means I should be able to do whatever I want with the console, whether I want to modify it to run a computer system... or do robotics... or even smash it with a hammer if I felt like it. Telling your customers that they can't do what they want with their consoles is bad for business I would think. Suing and threatening your customers? Now that's even worse.
Sony is also demanding "A bajillion kajillion dollars, all the chocolate in the world, and a pony."
Must be to get everyone into a courtroom, hold up a neuralizer, say "Please look into the light", ... wait, what do you mean there's no such thing as a neuralizer?
Sony claims the hacks will eat into game sales for the 41 million PS3 units sold.
Dear Sony,
You know what will really cut into sales? Being total douchebags towards your customers. That's what is really going to cut into sales.
thxkbye
'The tyrant will always find pretext for his tyranny.' - Aesop's Fables
60GB with full hardware backwards compatibility...
Sony has been reading the SCO playbook....
Rick B.
They have to know what each accused user eats for breakfast too?
Sony used to be innovative , I have sony products : but is this action really excusable ?
The world has moved on, popular culture encourages that people hack everything from their toaster to the PS3.
SONY wake up - you are doing the opposite of what you should be doing.
This will hit the main press and it will look so bad.
Change your ways to embrace the new world - not even Apple makes such a fuss about "the inevitable"
All Steve worries about is keeping his "one more thing" a surprise.
Blame the lawyers (yeah, I don't like lawyers :P)
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Post it on wikileaks, and make it available to all from there, as they are already in hot water, and will not be shut down at any cost.....this way it will get mirrored by all who support such things, and the openness of information. Screw you SONY!
...but now I refuse. My 7 year old will be disappointed but someday he'll understand because I'll raise him to know that we vote with our wallets. I'd rather he be a PC gamer anyways.
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What's more, the company is demanding that a federal judge order Google to surrender the IP addresses and other identifying information (PDF) of those who have viewed or commented about the jailbreak video on a private YouTube page.
The INTERESTING bit here is in finding out how much, and what, Google actually logs and stores.
So does Google actually log visits by IP adress to a private YouTube page?
Just the simple fact that they're going berserk like this makes me want to go find the exploit info and post it in as many places as possible...behind 7 proxies.
The PS2 was very easily hacked to play pirated games. And yet the PS2 was the most successful console of its generation. The Gameboy line of handhelds have all been very easily hacked, and yet Nintendo sells tons of games and hardware.
I'm not advocating piracy or saying it has zero effect, but I honestly believe that threatening to sue anyone who even viewed the content (with no proof they hacked their console, or distributed the information) is really going too far. I've long been a Sony supporter. I bought a PS3 instead of a 360 to specifically support Sony. With it I purchased a new Sony surround system and Bravia.
But I can't imagine every supporting them again for any reason. And why would any consumer want to buy a future console from a company that sues their customers? The key won't kill Playstation, but Sony's behavior will.
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Can someone please put a link to that youtube video ?
Thanks.
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I believe that Sony's lawyers failed miserably in reality check ... What will they do, forcing everyone (on the entire planet) to forget that the hack exists? These guys forget that the reality is quite different from the fairy tale where they live...
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Am I the only one who finds it a little creepy that a foreign company can come into the U.S. and just wantonly try to violate the 1st and 4th amendment rights of our citizens (and presumably, many other citizens around the world)? As big a bunch of tools as Google are, I would hope they would at least tell Sony to go to hell on the identities of commenters and viewers of a web video. And, if they do hand these over, I think the FBI should be investigating THEM.
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We have just discussed this round the table on our lunch break in work (Server Engineers), not a single one of us can think of how this can possibly end well for Sony, In fact I have seen this 'Streisanding' across the office as beta geeks from the service desk etc. come and ask us what all this 'Jailbreaking' on the PS3 is all about and why they are so upset about it. This is such a dumb move that anyone with an ounce of technical knowledge would have advised against. This behaviour has repercussions far beyond its intended target and its scary. I just hope they get slapped down and slapped down hard.
I've got some photographs, I'd like to show them to you. Though you don't know the girls You'll recognise the view..
Remember: in Spain, the jailbreak is legal. Guess who is putting pressure on all those ACTA weasels to push those rulings through international bodies.
Disgusting scum. Bah.
Come get me, assholes.
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I have all the software and code to hack the PS3. I will also make it available to anyone that asks for it, by emailing me at montezumamd@gmail.com. Seeing as everyone that wants it can get it, Sony will have a hard fucking time suing me, or anyone else. There is also the fact that I am dirty-fucking-poor, and have no money to my name. Also, seeing how I cannot be put in jail for providing what is already publicly available, Sony can do nothing to me.
I was going to try and comment on that YouTube video(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UkLSXsCKDkg), but alas, it is private. So, I will just comment here and say that, if that video is pertaining to hacking the PS3, then good job.
COME SUE ME SONY, I GOT NO MONEY, AND IM ON SSI HAHAAHAHAHAHAHAA TAKE THIS AND SHOVE IT erk: C0 CE FE 84 C2 27 F7 5B D0 7A 7E B8 46 50 9F 93 B2 38 E7 70 DA CB 9F F4 A3 88 F8 12 48 2B E2 1B riv: 47 EE 74 54 E4 77 4C C9 B8 96 0C 7B 59 F4 C1 4D pub: C2 D4 AA F3 19 35 50 19 AF 99 D4 4E 2B 58 CA 29 25 2C 89 12 3D 11 D6 21 8F 40 B1 38 CA B2 9B 71 01 F3 AE B7 2A 97 50 19 R: 80 6E 07 8F A1 52 97 90 CE 1A AE 02 BA DD 6F AA A6 AF 74 17 n: E1 3A 7E BC 3A CC EB 1C B5 6C C8 60 FC AB DB 6A 04 8C 55 E1 K: BA 90 55 91 68 61 B9 77 ED CB ED 92 00 50 92 F6 6C 7A 3D 8D Da: C5 B2 BF A1 A4 13 DD 16 F2 6D 31 C0 F2 ED 47 20 DC FB 06 70
That's the key information for the console, not the program to actually jailbreak it.
Anyone have a link for GeoHot's jailbreak.zip?
What are they going to do, send thugs over? [pumps shotgun]
The three laws of thermodynamics:(1) You can't win. (2) You can't break even. (3) You can't even quit.
Sure, now Sony will have to evaluate new DRM for new games. Big whoop. By antagonizing like this, all they're doing is digging the hole deeper. Adding back the OtherOS option would have been reason enough for the fail0verflow folks to quit.
Sony Computer Entertainment *America* LLC v. Hotz et al
Foreign owned subsidiary, but an American company. If anything, it's worse that America is imposing its will on the world.. this case in NorCal has a judge who's all too happy to let SCEA sue people who neither live, work or are from the USA.
If I threw up a mirror they'd try to sue me too, so I'm in that boat. Not that I'd listen to Susan Illston from this side of the pacific ocean.
Does anyone know if the US defence dept are still using a cluster of PS3s as a supercomputer? No I realise they'd never be so daft as to connect the cluster to the interwebs, and so never had the other-OS feature removed, but I'll bet there's somebody on the project who's looked into the option of cracking it...
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Go **** Yourself SONY...
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Many would attempt to portrait jailbreakers as independent thinkers and tinkerers, while much more likely the majority are 12 yo kids cheating in online games.
Exact same thing.
Wikileaks had been out for awhile and no one cared. Suddenly the government got it's knickers in a twist and tried to shut it down. Suddenly everyone started paying attention.
As someone who's been a sony customer for quite some time and i've never held interest in hacking or jailbreaking or whatever consoles, I just ignored this whole key fiasco when it first started. Then over and over again you're getting your getting all butthurt about it, pushing everyone into lawsuits over it. Guess what I'm doing when I get home now? If you said "go home and jailbreak my ps3", you're right!
A big giant "screw you Sony" from a previously loyal customer.
What do I know, I'm just an idiot, right?
Am I the only one who finds it a little creepy that a foreign company can come into the U.S. and just wantonly try to violate the 1st and 4th amendment rights of our citizens (and presumably, many other citizens around the world)? p>
Its just you.
The rest of understand that freedom of speech doesn't mean consequence free speech. If Sony suffers damages from your speech, they can sue for those damages. Then, you get the opportunity to defend your actions in a court of law.
There is absolutely no unreasonable search and seizure when you post something on youtube.and Sony sees it. In fact, the posting of something on youtube creates probably cause to search the poster's property provided that a judge issues a warrant. Sony has done nothing wrong in acting in its own best interests. They simply asked a judge to create a warrant so that they can legally search for those whom Sony believes has actually harmed them.
I assume you lock your door at night, and even if you leave your door unlocked one night, it doesn't excuse theft. However, if someone were to post a youtube video showing specifically how your brand of door lock can be picked, it could be judicially warranted to extract the information of people who subsequently linked to schematics showing where you store valuables in your home, posted when you left for vacation, or otherwise recorded a method of breaking into your house.
As big a bunch of tools as Google are, I would hope they would at least tell Sony to go to hell on the identities of commenters and viewers of a web video. And, if they do hand these over, I think the FBI should be investigating THEM.
Obviously youtube has already refused to turn over user information, which is why Sony is asking a judge to overrule them. No need for the FBI here.
It's incredible how asinine the behavior of Sony can be when we have lambasted M$ for years here, they can really put M$ to shame.
When my original 360 died recently, there was a short debate (in my head, which means it was really brief) as to do I replace it with a slim 360 or a ps3. Slim won out, and I know I made the right choice.
I'll be damned if I give another penny to Sony at this point. I may have to take some electrical tape and cover the logo on my TV, which uselessly, lights up "SONY" for 30 sec when I turn the TV on. Fuck them.
Sammy or Panny will be getting my dollars for the next TV.
And what is it about asking for the IP address of those who VIEWED it?
"Gee, this Tor guy is really active!"
Am I the only one who finds it a little creepy that a foreign company can come into the U.S. and just wantonly try to violate the 1st and 4th amendment rights of our citizens
It sure sounds like English is not your native language. I wonder just who the foreigners are here :P
Plus, do you not realize that Google is one of the few companies that does NOT give any information over to the government?
Recall the wifi packet capture data being demanded by every state?
Recall the warentless wiretaps?
Stop being such a tool.
Sony Francis says "You just made the list, buddy. Also, I don’t like no one touching my stuff. So just keep your meathooks off. If I catch any of you guys in my stuff, I’ll kill you. And I don’t like nobody blogging about me. Any of you **homos** blog me, and I’ll kill you."
Old business model:
1. Sell product ... :(*
2. Hack computers of people who purchased it
3. ?
4. ?
5. Profit!
6. Abused customers push back, force Sony to stop criminal behaviour
New business model:
1. Sell product
2. Sue people who purchased it
3. ?
4. ?
5. Profit!
There is a point where the people under an abusive dictator push back.
What will sony do with the PSP phone? law says you can hack a phone for any app and any network! SO I don't sony can get away with sueing to keep the info on how to hack it off the web.
I think I'll just leave this here...
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Seems that random.org is hosting the keys at http://www.random.org/cgi-bin/randbyte?nbytes=16&format=h Hopefully sony will not sue them!!!!!11
http://news.cnet.com/2100-1023-983560.html
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Throwing away the only Sony product in my house - headsets! And never, never looking at Sony again! And why should I, if there are so many great products, exceeding very poor stuff from Sony:
TVs - Samsung
Mobile - Nokia / HTC / etc
Photo and Video - Canon
Projectors - BenQ
Computers - Asus
Car Audio - Alpine
Computers - Asus
MP3 Players - Sandisk
Games - XBox
erk it!
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down the pub!
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gettin ready for R!
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get down with the n!
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hope y'all enjoyed the show,
now it's time to GTFO!
Could Google just respond with 0.0.0.0/0 ?
Sorry to reiterate this, but,
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The DMCA makes it either a civil or criminal offense to traffic in wares meant to circumvent devices protecting copyrighted works.
IANAL, but how is the PS3 hack circumventing a device that protects a copyrighted work? Sure it allows you to use an already-hacked work, but the PS3 isn't doing to the copyright protection to begin with.
This is scary...Seriously fucking scary. A company is trying to make another company release the PERSONAL information of individuals simply because they commented on a Youtube video! There is something seriously wrong with this....
In light of the iPhone decision (that allowed "jailbreaking"), I wonder if they really have a leg on which to stand. Or is it that the iPhone decision only pertains to opening it up to additional software choicese (does the PS3 break imply more)?
I use irony whenever I can, but my shirts are still wrinkled...
i dont know why every major electronics company, sony, microsoft, etc has to be asses about something that encourages the gaming community to purchase and use products they made. Its almost as if they dont realize that people a spending their earned money for a luxury item, yet when people start hacking and cracking their own property to better the experience for themselves they almost instantly try to sue everyone connected to the hack. sony fuck you, (and your couch you sit on) personally i feel that this is going to end up just like the iphone/touch jailbreak situation that happened. Because of cydia you can get apps like app cake and installous, and from the you can get just about any app found in the app store. I find it interesting that they try to protect their materials so much and yet they end up hurting themselves in the process. like when the mac version of the app store HOSTED a cracked version of an app already in the app store...
Sony, do i really have to say anymore, oh shit i saw the code posted in the comment section what are you gonna do sue me for something posted on a INFORMATIONAL/NEWS site... seriously go fuck yourselves with a cheese grater
"For years I have been planning to get a PS3, but I'll be damned if I'm gonna give a penny to a company that is going to use the money to sue me and my peers... Guess I'll just have to buy used."
Shouldn't you have moved beyond the planning stage by now?
In any case, the complications arising from moving to the more complex used market combined with your historical performance record mean hopefully you'll get one some time in the 2020's - but I wouldn't count on it.
...ironic?
SONY Playstation 3 Console 160 GB Black $50 promotional gift card with purchase, ends 2/14I was already done with Sony. They don't even make high quality stuff anymore, it's all disposable junk they charge a premium to put their name on. The last straw was a BluRay movie, a $10 one, refusing to play on my PS3 without a firmware upgrade. WTF?!?!?! It's a PAID FOR MOVIE. Fuck you. Not only that, I think I'm going to start pirating all my media. I don't have to deal with this shit on pirated movies/games.
I have viewed the code, the instructions, etc. as I like to read and know more. I do not own a PS3. Sue me for having a brain and wanting to fill it with useless knowledge, be my guest, and good luck with that.
dunno why they think they can stop the hack. not even microsoft whent this crazy when the orignal xbox got softmodded. not that it effects me any i dont own a ps3 nor plan on ever owing one. heck when the ps2 got softmodded sony didnt say a word. what is there hardon with the ps3 there worst system ever relesed.
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With PAX East coming up, it might be a good time for PA to weigh in on Sony's attack on gamers property rights. This was once the sort of stuff they would be all over. Would there be a more powerful statement against Sony then Pax banning any presence of the PS3 or PSP?
Yet PA silently stands by while free speech and property rights are raped by Sony.
Someone should start a bonfire of burning PS3's right in the middle of Times Square.
Throw in a bunch of other Sony products while you're at it. Burn pictures of Sony's CEO and stick
pins in a voodo doll that looks like him. Sell their frag'n stock short.
There, I feel better already.
All your firmware are belong to us!
The last few times things like this happened, /. was one of the places where you'd find list of mirrors, and every 3rd comment was someone posting his mirror.
Now, it's all complaining, whining, and crying.
It may finally be time to let this site die.
Assorted stuff I do sometimes: Lemuria.org
PS3 still has no games fyi
Yes, you are the only one who:
- Doesn't know that Sony is a Japanese company
- Doesn't understand that the First Amendment applies to government regulation of speech
- Doesn't understand that the Fourth Amendment applies to government search&seizure, and does not make subpoenas illegal
- Doesn't understand that the First and Fourth Amendments don't apply to "other citizens around the world"
- Doesn't realize how idiotic it sounds to want the FBI to investigate a company should they comply with a subpoena issued by a federal judge
Your heart is in the right place. But your brain, well, it could use some work.
If I wanted a sig I would have filled in that stupid box.
It's such a shame. Sony used to be the best consumer electronics company. The problems started when Sony added Sony Music, which had the side effect of Sony not launching a MP3 player until years after other companies. Sony Music didn't want Sony Consumer Electronics making a device that might allow music copying. It got worse when Sony added Sony Pictures. They could have made the killer set top box but Sony Pictures didn't want Sony CE making a device that might hurt DVD sales. Now we have Sony suing people who are ostensibly trying to get back functionality that they took away. This sue your customers business model has got to stop.
Competition Good, Monopoly Bad.
Instead of rick-rolling we need to start ps3 hack-rolling and give them some real numbers to try suing. I want to see them sending out millions of lawsuit letters to everyone who thought they were gonna see the new Beiber video.
Doesn't know that Sony is a Japanese company
Uh, that was kind of my point.
Doesn't understand that the First Amendment applies to government regulation of speech
Doesn't understand that the Fourth Amendment applies to government search&seizure, and does not make subpoenas illegal
Who do you think *approves* the subpoena...McDonalds?
Doesn't understand that the First and Fourth Amendments don't apply to "other citizens around the world"
Yes, because no other country has any laws protecting privacy and offering protection against search and seizure.
Doesn't realize how idiotic it sounds to want the FBI to investigate a company should they comply with a subpoena issued by a federal judge
The issue was whether they would comply *without* a court order. And whether or not a court would (or, rather, should) issue such an order.
SJW: Someone who has run out of real oppression, and has to fake it.
We here at sony have the right to make money. All you hacker, crackers, and slashdotters think you are all so smart. Remember we have to feed our families and put bread on the table. For every hack posted, more of our families are starving. So to all of you hacking, thinking of hacking, dreaming of hacking, watching others hack, or talking about hacking - we will find you and destroy you to keep food on our table. You may have purchased a PS3, but we still own it, every last one. We have the law on our side. We will hunt you down, your children and mothers. We will sue anyone in our way or in our line of sight. You are all guilty of grievous actions. We will make you pay for starving our families. You think you can do what you want, but we are in control. Thees are our game consoles. We are collecting your IP address and are sending subpeonas to slashdot and your service provider as we speak.
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Viewed and commented upon a YouTube video?
Really?
For sale: 1 PS3.
Sony has been acting seriously consumer hostile for at least a couple of decades. I personally stopped buying their products after I bought an "MP3" player that would only play ATRAC, not MP3. Event though they have had some good tech, I consequently don't even look at their products. Most tech savy people i know feel the same way and we nerds have a lot of sway when it comes to influencing other people buying tech.
Sony need a total change of leadership, so they can start focusing on selling customers things they need instead of screwing their customers. Or maybe its best they just go down in flames. For me they are nothing but an annoyance everytime they come up in the news with some new pathetic scheme.
I viewed it, I hereby turn myself in. Here's my IP: 127.0.0.1
This is how you can see such a disconnect between the intelligent, hardworking people who *make* and the boneheads who decide. The people who made this platform, flaw and all, are damned clever. they put heart and soul into bringing forth something which can bring joy to millions.
Then somebody up top decides to lock it down, act like the manufacturer still owns a purchased piece of hardware, with all of the benefits and yet somehow none of the drawbacks (like replacing it for free forever).
Some member of the public works around this artificial limitation so that their own purchased hardware is once again their own - the "fix" is explicitly built in such a way as to not allow piracy, although such a hack means that somebody *else* can quite probably work off it to produce something new again, but that's another question.
Then the people who decide accuse said member of the public of doing the unthinkable - using *math*. They also accuse him of doing something he didn't.
Now, the people who make don't only work for Sony, they live all over this big beautiful globe we call "the earth" and they don't always live under the same rules or within the legal reach of the company that likes to have it's cake and eat it, and yet the people who decide *just don't get it*.
They can create a chilling effect on the homebrewers, the guys who unlocked their own hardware and taught others too, but they cannot legally stop every single hacker on the planet. There are always other people out there willing to pry open locked-down systems for the pure fun of it, and a damn sight mass of them aren't bound by the terms of the DMCA. If they scare off the homebrew crowd, like they have, the only guys left will be those out for less wholesome intentions.
Moral of the story: look both ways before crossing the street. or, don't be a dick to your fanbase.
Sony is trying to fight a losing battle with this one and of course obligatory mirrors http://sites.google.com/site/eclement/ps3jailbreak or http://qoaa.blogspot.com/2011/02/ps3-jailbreak.html
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"Hackers" are GOOD for business. Pay attention to what they are doing. They are showing you new ways to use your product. If there was no demand, nobody would do it. So consider the 'hackers' as a freebie addition to your R&D department. There are so many good minds out there with original ideas and they will make money for you if you would just loosen up a bit!