Post: Sony vs Geohot Settlement documents leaked.
04-11-2011, 06:34 PM #1
ciunas
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The entire settlement documents detailing the court order between Sony and George “GeoHot” Hotz has made its way into the web.

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The documents details all terms and conditions which George will have to abide by aswell as the restrictions, being imposed upon him. There’s nearly 8 pages of content and it’s worth a read for anyone, wanting to get a better idea about this whole thing.


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Originally posted by another user
IT IS HEREBY ORDERED AND ADJUDGED by consent of the Parties that Hotz,
whether as an individual or as a principal, officer, director or employee of any business
entity, and his agents, servants, employees, distributors, suppliers, representatives and all
other persons or entities acting in concert or participation with Hotz who receive notice of
this Judgment, shall be and hereby are permanently enjoined and restrained from:

A. Engaging in any unauthorized access to any SONY PRODUCT under the
law;

B. Engaging in any unauthorized access to any SONY PRODUCT under the
terms of any SCEA or SCEA AFFILIATES' license agreement or terms of use
applicable to that SONY PRODUCT, whether or not Hotz has accepted such
agreement or terms of use, including without limitation:

(i) reverse engineering, decompiling, or disassembling any portion of the Sony Product;

(ii) using any tools to bypass, disable, or circumvent any encryption,
security, or authentication mechanism in the Sony Product;

(iii) using any hardware or softare to cause the Sony Product to accept
or use unauthorized, illegal or pirated softare or hardware; and

(iv) exploiting any Sony Product to design, develop, update or distribute
unauthorized softare or hardware for use with the Sony Product.
If any term of such SCEA or SCEA Affilates' license agreement or terms of
use applicable to that Sony Product shall be determined by Congress or by a
court of law in a final non-appealable decision in an action to which SCEA or
an SCEA Affiliate is a party to be illegal and unenforceable, then such term
shall not be binding on Hotz.

C. CIRCUMVENTING any of the TPMs or security in any SONY PRODUCT;

D. TRAFFICKING in any technology, product, service, device, component, or
part thereof that, at the time of Hotz's trafficking, circumvents any of the
TPMs or security in any SONY PRODUCT, including but not limited to the
Ellptical Curve Signature Algorithm ("ECDSA") Keys, encryption andlor
decryption keys, dePKG firmware decrypter program, Signing Tools, 3.55
Firmware Jailbreak, andlor any other technologies that enable unauthorized
access to andlor copying of the PS3 System andlor enable compatibility of
unauthorized copies of other copyrighted works with the PS3 System.

E. Distributing or posting any SCEA or SCEA Affiliates' confidential or
proprietary information relating to any SONY PRODUCT;

F. Knowingly assisting or inducing others to engage in any of the conduct set
forth in A-E above solely directed at any SONY PRODUCT or that otherwise
constitutes contributory liabilty under the law.

IT IS FURTHER ORDERED AND ADJUDGED that any violation of this Injunction
and Order by Hotz shall result in his payment of stipulated liquidated damages in the amount of ten thousand dollars ($10,000) per violation at the election of SCEA or SCEA's
Affiliates. In the event that the violation involves distribution or TRAFFICKING by Hotz of
softare, hardware, or any CIRCUMVENTION DEVICE, or knowingly assisting the same,
each distribution of said softare (including downloads via the Internet), hardware, or
CIRCUMVENTION DEVICE shall.constitute an independent violation, up to a cap of two
hundred and fifty thousand dollars ($250,000). Such liquidated damages shall be an
optional alternative to demonstrating actual or, if relevant, statutory damages.
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04-11-2011, 06:35 PM #2
DiJiTaLGoDz
Former Staff
thanks, i was trying to figure out what the settlement included. nobody around here seems to know. Smile

Here is what's going on

First off, read this:

Originally posted by another user

3. For purposes of the Order below, CIRCUMVENTING or CIRCUMVENT shall
mean using any means whatsoever to descramble, decrypt, or otherwise avoid, bypass,
remove, deactivate, or impair, regardless of the alleged purpose of the Circumvention.
4. For purposes of the Order below, TECHNOLOGICAL PROTECTION
MEASURES or TPMs shall mean anything whatsoever, including but not limited to any
code, device, information, encryption or key that prevents access to, downloading of,
distributing, or copying of any confidential or proprietary information or any softare code
or other copyrighted materiaL.
5. For purposes of the Order below CIRCUMVENTION DEVICE shall mean any
circumvention technology, product, service, method, softare, tool, device, or any
components or parts thereof that circumvents any of the TPMs or security in any SONY
PRODUCT.
6. For purposes of the Order below, TRAFFICKING shall mean any means of
distributing or sharing, including but not limited to offering to the public, posting online or
on or in any media accessible by anyone, marketing, advertising, promoting, installing,
distributing or otherwise providing to anyone. TRAFFICKING shall also include knowingly
providing links from any website to any other webpage, specific location or listing that Hotz
knows or reasonably should know is selling, offering for sale, marketing, directly
advertising or promoting, installing, importing, exporting, offering to the public, distributing,
posting or otherwise providing any CIRCUMVENTION DEVICE or to any website that Hotz
knows or reasonably should know is predominantly focused on sellng, offering for sale,
marketing, directly advertising or promoting, installing, importing, exporting, offering to the
public, distributing, posting or otherwise providing any CIRCUMVENTION DEVICE.


This is just defining what all the terms mean in his settlement, and what they consist of.

Pretty much, in all of this file. It says GEOHOT cannot **** with sony in any shape or form. If he does, he gets charged $10,000 for every offense made. If he releases any devices or anything, each download is an independent offense, which may lead up to a $250,000 fine.

^^ That summed up into all of this:
Originally posted by another user

shall be and hereby are permanently enjoined and restrained from:
A. Engaging in any unauthorized access to any SONY PRODUCT under the law;
B. Engaging in any unauthorized access to any SONY PRODUCT under the terms of any SCEA or SCEA AFFILIATES' license agreement or terms of use
applicable to that SONY PRODUCT, whether or not Hotz has accepted such
agreement or terms of use, including without limitation:
(i) reverse engineering, decompiling, or disassembling any portion of theAffilates' license agreement or terms of
use applicable to that Sony Product shall be determined by Congress or by a
court of law in a final non-appealable decision in an action to which SCEA or
an SCEA Affiliate is a party to be illegal and unenforceable, then such term
shall not be binding on Hotz.
C. CIRCUMVENTING any of the TPMs or security in any SONY PRODUCT;
D. TRAFFICKING in any technology, product, service, device, component, or
part thereof that, at the time of Hotz's trafficking, circumvents any of the TPMs or security in any SONY PRODUCT, including but not limited to the Ellptical Curve Signature Algorithm ("ECDSA") Keys, encryption andlor
decryption keys, dePKG firmware decrypter program, Signing Tools, 3.55 Firmware Jailbreak, andlor any other technologies that enable unauthorized access to andlor copying of the PS3 System andlor enable compatibility of unauthorized copies of other copyrighted works with the PS3 System.
E. Distributing or posting any SCEA or SCEA Affiliates' confidential or
proprietary information relating to any SONY PRODUCT
;
F. Knowingly assisting or inducing others to engage in any of the conduct set
forth in A-E above solely directed at any SONY PRODUCT or that otherwise
constitutes contributory liabilty under the law.
IT IS FURTHER ORDERED AND ADJUDGED that any violation of this Injunction
and Order by Hotz shall result in his payment of stipulated liquidated damages in the amount of ten thousand dollars ($10,000) per violation at the election of SCEA or SCEA's
Affiliates. In the event that the violation involves distribution or TRAFFICKING by Hotz of
softare, hardware, or any CIRCUMVENTION DEVICE, or knowingly assisting the same,
each distribution of said softare (including downloads via the Internet), hardware, or
CIRCUMVENTION DEVICE shall.constitute an independent violation, up to a cap of two
hundred and fifty thousand dollars ($250,000). Such liquidated damages shall be an
optional alternative to demonstrating actual or, if relevant, statutory damages.
IT IS FURTHER ORDERED AND ADJUDGED that any action or proceeding (other
than a declaratory judgment action) that may be brought by SCEA or SCEA Affilates
against Hotz arising out of, in connection with or by reason of the Parties' Settlement
Agreement or this Judgment or to enforce the terms and conditions of the Parties' Settlement Agreement or this Judgment, shall be brought in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California.

They even included in, that if they go to court again - it will be in jurisdiction of california. Dicks. No

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04-11-2011, 06:40 PM #3
Mr.Kane
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I dont fancy reading the whole thing. Can anyone post the terms here? +90 for whoever does.
04-11-2011, 06:45 PM #4
DiJiTaLGoDz
Former Staff
Originally posted by Mr.KANE View Post
I dont fancy reading the whole thing. Can anyone post the terms here? +90 for whoever does.


yeah, i was about to say the same. I don't even have adobe, i'm installing right now. i'll post them if nobody else does.

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04-11-2011, 06:45 PM #5
Koyasan
Little One
Can someone provide a general translation? :P
04-11-2011, 06:46 PM #6
ciunas
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Originally posted by Mr.KANE View Post
I dont fancy reading the whole thing. Can anyone post the terms here? +90 for whoever does.


T&C
Hotz
Basically he can't buy or touch any Sony product.Assisting anyone in hacking a Sony product ect. 10k per violation. (up to 250k) if Sony want.

Thats everything I got from a quick read.

Edit:
I don't see anything about bringing otheros back which he promised.

---------- Post added at 07:46 PM ---------- Previous post was at 07:45 PM ----------

Originally posted by DiJiTaLGoDz View Post
yeah, i was about to say the same. I don't even have adobe, i'm installing right now. i'll post them if nobody else does.


Originally posted by Koyasan View Post
Can someone provide a general translation? :P


10characters check above^

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04-11-2011, 06:49 PM #7
Mr.Kane
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Originally posted by sh View Post
T&C
Hotz
Basically he can't buy or touch any Sony product.Assisting anyone in hacking a Sony product ect. 10k per violation. (up to 250k) if Sony want.

Thats everything I got from a quick read.

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10characters check above^

Repped.
Originally posted by DiJiTaLGoDz View Post
yeah, i was about to say the same. I don't even have adobe, i'm installing right now. i'll post them if nobody else does.


Thanks, if you go in to more detail than Fl@sh then I'll rep you as well.
04-11-2011, 06:49 PM #8
brookboy98
Little One
Originally posted by sh View Post
T&C
Hotz
Basically he can't buy or touch any Sony product.Assisting anyone in hacking a Sony product ect. 10k per violation. (up to 250k) if Sony want.

Thats everything I got from a quick read.

Edit:
I don't see anything about bringing otheros back which he promised.

---------- Post added at 07:46 PM ---------- Previous post was at 07:45 PM ----------





10characters check above^


i understood the same thing.. also didnt se anything about otherOS
04-11-2011, 06:49 PM #9
sawyer928
Pokemon Trainer
it looks like basically geohot got bent over backwards.... he ****s with sony products he goes to california courts... and has to pay $10,000 per violation and if he circumvents anything to do this sony ps3 psn he is charged $250,000
this is what i get from the document... read it yourself its only 6 pages
04-11-2011, 06:51 PM #10
whodatninja
I am error
so in basic terms even though he wont admit it he actually lost... big time.
oh well at least he tried Smile

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