Post: Judge delays ruling on Playstation hacks
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01-15-2011, 04:26 PM
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Manxlad619
Hiya
Judge Delays the Verdict
In San Francisco a federal judge on Friday delayed deciding whether PlayStation 3 hacker George Hotz should surrender all of his computers and electronics as part of a lawsuit from Sony.Sony sued GeoHotz on Tuesday, saying that GeoHotz posting of the code to crack the PlayStation 3 is in breach of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act’s anti-circumvention provisions. Sony also wanted GeoHotz to remove any code he had uploaded to the internet last week.
U.S. District Judge Susan Illston, joked about the hearing. She said she wasn’t sure whether the case should be aired in the 21-year-old’s home state of New Jersey, where the hacking took place not in her courtroom
Sony’s attorney, James Gilliland Jr., argued the case could proceed in San Francisco because Hotz posted the hack on Twitter and YouTube, which are based in California. And Gilliland said Hotz received donations for the hack through PayPal, also based in California.
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But if using Twitter or Facebook is enough to bring a case to San Francisco, “the entire universe would be subject to my jurisdiction,” the judge told the Sony attorney about his argument.
Gilliland countered, arguing that the PlayStation’s terms-of-service agreement demands that legal disputes be settled in federal court here, near where Sony Computer Entertainment America is based. However GeoHotz never signed to the terms-of-service agreement which causes a hole in Sony’s case.
In the end, Judge Illston said she would rule at an undisclosed time.
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In an e-mail, Hotz said the case “doesn’t have any basis.”
“I am a firm believer in digital rights. I would expect a company that prides itself on intellectual property to be well-versed in the provisions of the law, so I am disappointed in Sony’s current action. I have spoken with legal counsel and I feel comfortable that Sony’s action against me doesn’t have any basis,” he wrote.
“I am a firm believer in digital rights. I would expect a company that prides itself on intellectual property to be well-versed in the provisions of the law, so I am disappointed in Sony’s current action. I have spoken with legal counsel and I feel comfortable that Sony’s action against me doesn’t have any basis,” he wrote.
However hacking or jailbreaking an iPhone so it will run apps not authorized by Apple is neither a civil nor criminal offense. The U.S. Copyright Office made that activity lawful in July.
So we have to wait and see whether they do the same with the PS3. Hopefully it will be legalised in my opinion. Just because it has opened the PS3 up to a whole new era of great modifications.
What do you think?
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01-15-2011, 04:51 PM
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InSaNe-xPWEEx
a.k.a. PWEE21
lets go :hitman:geohot:hitman:... sony will fail
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