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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. Might as well get in on the action by HungryHobo · · Score: 5, Informative

    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

    1. Re:Might as well get in on the action by Issarlk · · Score: 4, Funny

      You b*stard! Now I'm going to get sued!

    2. Re:Might as well get in on the action by clang_jangle · · Score: 4, Funny

      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

      Oh see how irresponsible you are, now it'll be easier than ever to find it with google!

      --
      Caveat Utilitor
    3. Re:Might as well get in on the action by WrongSizeGlass · · Score: 3, Informative

      I've used my secret decoder to decipher your message. It says "Hello Streisand Effect, Goody Bye Sony".

    4. Re:Might as well get in on the action by galaad2 · · Score: 5, Informative

      direct download link, always contains url of the latest sony firmware:
      http://fus01.ps3.update.playstation.net/update/ps3/list/us/ps3-updatelist.txt

      currently it points to v3.56
      http://dus01.ps3.update.playstation.net/update/ps3/image/us/2011_0127_6e070c96e0464e993aaf9deac3660863/PS3UPDAT.PUP

      this firmware update can be installed without having to have a PlayStation network account or having to agree with the PS Network ToS & User Agreement

      http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20110202220600258

      --
      root@127.0.0.1
    5. Re:Might as well get in on the action by Howard+Beale · · Score: 5, Funny

      And Bing will have it in a week thanks to my toolbar!

    6. Re:Might as well get in on the action by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Insightful

      Sue American websites to take down material, sue the same sites to identify American 'infringers'. I guess Google will become Doe 25... for "aiding and abetting DMCA terrorists" or some similarly dramatic nonsense. They have plenty of links to...

      http://gitorious.org/ps3free/ps3keys http://gitorious.org/ps3free/ps3publictools

      But just try suing Gitorious in Norway or me wherever (even when I'm unemployed, I might try) I get bandwidth to host a mirror - if a NorCal court tells me to jump, I'll tell them to fuck off. If a NorCal court tells my DNS registrar to jump, they'll be told again to fuck off. If a NorCal court tells my non-US provider to cough up the goods, they'll be told the DMCA doesn't count here in the slightest.. then to fuck off.

      See the emerging pattern, Sony?

  2. 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.

    1. Re:Remember the css_descramble.c Shirt by witherstaff · · Score: 3, Insightful

      Those were fun shirts. "This is an illegal circumvention device" were a common sight around the office for awhile. A "Sony wants this shirt off my back" would be good too.

    2. Re:Remember the css_descramble.c Shirt by GameboyRMH · · Score: 4, Insightful

      Make the shirt show some cleavage, then:

      On the front: "Sony wants to cover this up" or "Sony doesn't want you to see this"

      On the back: PS3 root keys, blu-ray keys, etc

      --
      "When information is power, privacy is freedom" - Jah-Wren Ryel
  3. Well... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    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.

  4. 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.

  5. This has been done before, and it failed. by mnslinky · · Score: 4, Insightful

    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.

    1. 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,...

  6. Am I doing this right? by abigsmurf · · Score: 5, Funny

    erk: I left my phone at home
    riv: Thames
    pub: The Royal Oak
    R: Me 'arties
    n: o spells no
    K: mart
    Da: da daa da da da daaaa da daa daa daaaaaa

    1. Re:Am I doing this right? by Vernes · · Score: 3, Funny

      erk: Darmok on the ocean
      riv: Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra
      pub: The beast at Tanagra
      r: Kadir beneath Mo Moteh
      n: Kiteo, his eyes closed
      k: Temba, his arms wide open
      da: Temba, at rest

  7. Why mistreat your customers? by maclizard · · Score: 3, Insightful

    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.

    1. Re:Why mistreat your customers? by royallthefourth · · Score: 3, Informative

      Buying used still increases the scarcity of PS3's, allowing Sony to keep the price of a new unit high.

      Not that individuals acting alone have any impact anyway...

  8. In breaking news by Geminii · · Score: 4, Funny

    Sony is also demanding "A bajillion kajillion dollars, all the chocolate in the world, and a pony."

    1. Re:In breaking news by PolygamousRanchKid+ · · Score: 3, Interesting

      Sony is also demanding "A bajillion kajillion dollars, all the chocolate in the world, and a pony."

      Well, I don't have a pony to offer them, but I do have an ass. It's hairy, and Sony is cordially invited to kiss it.

      I don't understand Sony. Back in the 80's and 90's, when I needed some electronic thingie, I would just walk into the store and ask what Sony had to offer. I have a CD player from 1989 that refuses to do, despite years of abuse from a dumb-ass like me. My camcorder from 1998 is still the toast of the town, for all the features that it has. It also refuses to die, despite my drunken friends at parties, dropping it, spilling beer on it, etc.

      As a child/teenager, back in the 70's, I used to read my father's copy of . When they had stories about top executives, I used to think, "Wow! Those must be really intelligent guys, to be running a big company like that!" Now, I look at Sony, with their root-kit action, and now this, and I ask, "How did such dumb-asses get to be running such a large company? Don't they realize that they are pissing their customers off with stuff like this?"

      Well, let me join the chorus. The next time I buy some electronic thingie, instead of asking, "What does Sony have?", I will ask, "What can you recommend?" Sorry Sony, I just seem to not have much trust in you anymore.

      --
      Schroedinger's Brexit: The UK is both in and out of the EU at the same time!
  9. Cutting into Sales by Fnord666 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    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
    1. Re:Cutting into Sales by Tisha_AH · · Score: 3, Interesting

      I am amazed that Sony is persisting in being a BUNCH OF JACKASSES. When I purchased a PS3 several years ago most of the appeal was the "Other OS" feature. Sure, I have bought my share of games (>20) and enjoy those too. Selling something (Other OS) and then taking it away makes many of us just think that Sony management is full of Mother-Fuc&ers.

      Sony should be embracing the Other OS crowd and giving us more options to use the platform for high end computing.

      Hey assholes, you made the news as a forward thinking company when you gave us the Other OS feature. Now you are making the news for being just as backwards and ignorant as Micro$oft.

      What the result will be (for me) is that I will enjoy the games I have but will not spend another dime on PS3 games. Guess what, I am doing that just to spite you.

      --
      Tisha Hayes
  10. Sue me, motherfucker. by Montezumaa · · Score: 3, Interesting

    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.

  11. not the right code... by TheSHAD0W · · Score: 3, Insightful

    That's the key information for the console, not the program to actually jailbreak it.

    Anyone have a link for GeoHot's jailbreak.zip?

  12. One guy keeps turning up in the logs by fnj · · Score: 4, Funny

    And what is it about asking for the IP address of those who VIEWED it?

    "Gee, this Tor guy is really active!"

  13. Re:DEAR SONY by HungryHobo · · Score: 3, Insightful

    And you see no problem with the fact that you would have to sue to get rid of those other terms?

    my post was essentially what most EULAs are.
    A wishlist of things that the company would love with no reference at all to whether it's even vaguely legal.

    And they all essentially say the same thing: "we can do anything at all we want, we have no obligation to you at all, you should be happy we allowed you to give us money ,you can't do anything though we may not enforce our right to stop you from doing stuff if we feel like it" and plastered all over it because they know very well that most of what they write isn't even vaguely legal: something along the lines of "if any part or parts of this agreement are invalidated or illegal all the rest still binds you but not us"

    I absolutely agree to abide by any contract I sign but the thing is that I've never in my life signed a contract for software.
    All I've ever done is click "OK" to company wishlists after I've already bought my property from them and our business is done.

  14. Re:Just for viewing? by Nadaka · · Score: 4, Informative

    Not the case any more. a $100 graphics card will get you a Radeon 4850 or Radeon 5750. That is enough to play just about anything at default settings. Bump it up to the $150 to $200 range and you can play anything with higher settings.