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Sony Lawyers Expand Dragnet, Targeting Anybody Posting PS3 Hack

Posted by Soulskill on from the scorched-earth dept.

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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  1. Remember the css_descramble.c Shirt by syntap · · Score: 5, Interesting

    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.

  2. Goodbye Sony, for good !!!! by macpacheco · · Score: 4, Interesting

    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.

  3. Re:This has been done before, and it failed. by BigSlowTarget · · Score: 4, Interesting

    They want the Striesand effect. If it becomes widely distributed and known that people who hack PS3's get sued into oblivion the lesson is clear: mess with Sony and you lose your house. This is especially true for the people who had the talent and interest to do it the first time and it's probably going to slow down future hacks. The population of skilled hardware/software/firmware/microcontroller hackers capable of jailbreaking PS3's out there is probably large, but not infinite and they're reducing the pool.

    Sony is planning for the PS4,5,6,...