Post: GeoHot Sued by Sony
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01-13-2011, 05:48 AM
#1
If you haven't heard, educate yourself about the root key for the PS3 You must login or register to view this content. & about his CFW You must login or register to view this content..
Around a week after GeoHot released his CFW and the PS3's root key, Sony has taken action and filed a lawsuit against him and the team known as FailOverFl0w, a team dedicated to the PS3 that develop hacks for the PS3.
Sony, unlike Microsoft is the only one taking action against those who allow and create methods for pirating while Microsoft simply bans the console they believe is modified to allow piracy.
Charges:
Originally posted by another user
18 U.S.C. § 1030(a)(2)(C) – Confidential Information On Computer
18 U.S.C. § 1030(a)(4) – Intent To Defraud And Obtain Value
18 U.S.C. § 1030(a)(5)(A) – Knowing Transmission of Code
18 U.S.C. § 1030(a)(5)(B) and (C) – Intentional and Reckless Damage And Loss
18 U.S.C. § 1030(a)(6)(A) – Trafficking in Password
18 U.S.C. § 1030(a)(7)(B) – Intent to Extort
18 U.S.C. § 1030(a)(4) – Intent To Defraud And Obtain Value
18 U.S.C. § 1030(a)(5)(A) – Knowing Transmission of Code
18 U.S.C. § 1030(a)(5)(B) and (C) – Intentional and Reckless Damage And Loss
18 U.S.C. § 1030(a)(6)(A) – Trafficking in Password
18 U.S.C. § 1030(a)(7)(B) – Intent to Extort
The angle that sony is taking seems to be that they are trying to censor and remove all leaks related to the PS3 instead of simply disabling the consoles like other companies.
Due to the PS3 console being an expensive to produce system and very little profit is made from the system itself, whilest majority of their income is from game sales, it makes sense why they are pressing the specific charges posted above.
Since in this age that we live in is the age of information, taking down and removing such information that was on GeoHot's site is near futile, mirrors of his original site has sprung up You must login or register to view this content. & You must login or register to view this content..
It is hosted on a university's server and was uploaded by a man by the name of David S. Touretzky.
David is a known fighter, he was involved in the DeCSS in which a teenager was sued for creating a program allowing people use DVDs on a Linux system, back in 1999 which was a big deal then.
David also has fought and won in other law suits and even has a site about what to do if you are wrongfully accused of a copyright violation.
The man has the balls, experience and has shown in the passed that he has the knowledge to fight big cases.
I think it's time to sit back and watch as things get interesting.
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01-13-2011, 03:17 PM
#20
CuckingFunts
Keeper
I agree with F33L. He is in it only for the money, What better way to get known by sony? Go and hack there system. He will be on a big salary for sony very soon!
01-13-2011, 03:44 PM
#21
Geigers
Legal 
I don't really think he is in it for the money, sure he might be showing Sony what he can do to their system and how he could help but if they would have seen that as a good opportunity to hire him they would have instead of suing him, and like everyone said the CFW is for the homebrews and back-ups, the CL's just came with
01-13-2011, 03:55 PM
#22
PhantomRenegade
PS3 hacking is dead
anyone who thinks that CFW is mostly used for CL's is a high pitched little CoD fag who thinks hes the coolest kid at recess because he has a spinning coin.
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01-13-2011, 04:35 PM
#25
yakuza6254
Gobble
what going to happen to the user of ps3 when the have installed that cfw will it be banned or just patched by new firmware
01-13-2011, 06:52 PM
#26
Fail
I Break The Rules.
Originally posted by yakuza6254
what going to happen to the user of ps3 when the have installed that cfw will it be banned or just patched by new firmware
They can Ban your Mac address. No one knows if the Mac address with be bypassable. They cannot patch it because the Custom Firmware bypasses updates.
GeoHot ftw :p
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