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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Might as well get in on the action

[HungryHobo]

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

Re:Might as well get in on the action

[Issarlk]

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

Re:Might as well get in on the action

[clang_jangle]

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!

Re:Might as well get in on the action

[galaad2]

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

Re:Might as well get in on the action

[Howard Beale]

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

Remember the css_descramble.c Shirt

[syntap]

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.

Re:Remember the css_descramble.c Shirt

[GameboyRMH]

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

Goodbye Sony, for good !!!!

[macpacheco]

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.

This has been done before, and it failed.

[mnslinky]

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.

Re:This has been done before, and it failed.

[BigSlowTarget]

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,...

Am I doing this right?

[abigsmurf]

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

In breaking news

[Geminii]

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

Cutting into Sales

[Fnord666]

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

One guy keeps turning up in the logs

[fnj]

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

"Gee, this Tor guy is really active!"

Re:Just for viewing?

[Nadaka]

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.