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Geohot is the man

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After the months-long legal battle between George “GeoHot” Hotz and Sony came to its conclusion this week, after both parties, agreeing to settle the matter via a joint settlement, wherein Hotz agreed to a permanent injunction against making public, any methods to hack the PS3 or any other Sony product, either, offline or online.
However, this settlement doesn’t permanently restrict Hotz from hacking Sony products, including the PS3 and sharing them with the public. There’s a clause, which enables him to do so, if he wants to.

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The court order states that, should Hotz violate the injunction, he will have to pay $10,000 to Sony, with a penalty cap of $250,000. Yes, you heard it, correct, the injuction is capped. Although, 250,000 is not by any means, a small sum, but for a globally recognized, hacker as Hotz, it’s merely change. Why? All he needs is 50,000 people willing to donate a mere $5, in order to amass that amount and then, he’s free to do whatever he wants with Sony products. It’ll take even fewer people to contribute that much, if the average donation is higher.
Although, unlikely, but the possibility of Hotz, amassing that much money from his supporters and paying it to Sony, and going on to hack the PS3 or the NGP won’t be a surprise either.

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More so, because of his reactions after the settlement, with him, publicly declaring, that he has decided to boycott all Sony products in his blog.
Hotz also shot back at Sony and had this to say regarding the class action suit filed against the company for the removal of OtherOS:



Although, without paying a fine, Hotz can’t do as much as, touch a Sony product, but this penalty cap certainly leaves an option open for him, if he desires to resume his fight against Sony.
The penalty cap is an extremely surprising loophole in the clause and it’s baffling that Sony’s allowed such a thing to be included.
Alarmed by this news? Let us know your thoughts regarding this below. We’ll have more updates if they emerge later.


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they you woud be that sheeps that just follows everyone but why would anyone in the right mind give him money? What did he really do? i wouldnt give hm any money simply because he doesnt deserve it all he did was lose to Sony and now people think he is special please and I am willing to bet he wont hack the ps3 again

if sony wasnt such a money hungry monster and set a guide line for its content like (c.o.d) be played on its system we wouldnt have all these problems think about it.. they over charge for everything, map packs 15 each after you pay 70 to 140 for a game... really?? *uck that and not only paying to much they allow these game companys to favor a console (xbox) for content early releases before other consoles. Its awesome someone stood up to them im greatful he did what he did ..these games dont even do what they should do ... do what you pay for i should say atleast give us our moneys worth theres a million people giving ideas why not use them (hotz!). sorry for the rant but feeling angry

Bring him to xbox !!

If he really wants to have an effect against sony he should enquire for a job on a next-gen console like the 720, Wii2 or maybe even an apple console? xD

He wont carry on, and he won't want 250,000 or how ever much it was off people. He only ever asked for money to cover his legal fee's.

/facepalm/facepalm

he's working on the holodeck , wtf does he care about a gaming console.

Well sorry for not knowing :|

And I was hoping for him to Jailbreak the Sony Xperia Play since I should be getting it next month

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I'd rather pay money than using the stupid Microsoft Points xbox users have to use, plus we can gameshare on the Playstation 3 whereas xbox users cannot, you basically get more for your money with the Playstation when purchasing from the Playstation store, especially when you have more than one console like me.

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