Post: Sony vs Geohot Settlement documents leaked.
04-11-2011, 06:34 PM #1
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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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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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04-12-2011, 11:47 AM #38
Lamputt
Space Ninja
geohot basically got ass f*cked by sony BIG TIME!
looks like sony bought off the judge, this ruling is a complete joke, if i by a ps3 i should be able to do whatever the hell i want to it!
04-12-2011, 12:21 PM #39
Oleh
Keeper
Well there goes me buying a ps4 and the ngp.

If they won't reason i won't reason.

OPERATION BOYCOTT SONY!
04-12-2011, 12:39 PM #40
:O sony owned you my friend and i was on your side of this (geohotz)
04-12-2011, 12:58 PM #41
ResistTheSun
In Flames Much?
Originally posted by whodatninja View Post
so in basic terms even though he wont admit it he actually lost... big time.
oh well at least he tried Smile


Geohotz won in the fact he could have got off alot worse.
Sony did this because they can't sue him for the damage done because he does not have the cash.
Geohotz has started the ground work for jailbreaking of consoles.
However has not won the case of allowing jailbreaking but has cleared up a couple things.

First it going to happen in california.
Second SCEA has legal right to fight for SCEJ in the US.
Maybe some more

Not a clear victory for geohotz but it minor one. And not what many people wanted but that was not going to happen. It going to take years for that to happen much like jailbreaking phones.
What be interesting how this translates to the EU.

If anything it bad PR for sony.
04-12-2011, 01:06 PM #42
Acerman
Gym leader
Oh I guess if he didn't release it he wouldn't be in trouble with copyright :(

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