Sony looking to expand jailbreak lawsuit to more defendants

[wraggster]

Geohot may soon have company while facing the wrath of Sony. George Hotz has had todefend himself in court against the company since the beginning of this year, as Sony attempts to track down all the hackers responsible for the now widely-available PS3 jailbreak. The problem, thus far, has been actually finding them.

According to documents retrieved by PSX-SCENE, the company is pursuing this information, subpoenaing sites like the recently-DMCA'd Github. Sony is requesting "all information and documents related to the use of your service(s) to register, create, maintain and/or use accounts associated with the user names "hermesEOL," "kakaroto," "waninkoko," and "grafchokolo."

Although it's unlikely this legal action will slow distribution of the jailbreak, Sony's actions send a very loud statement: "we're very angry, and we're ."

http://www.joystiq.com/2011/02/05/so...re-defendants/

[robbbert]

Dumb & dumber. Doesn't Sony realise that the console will be far more attractive to potential buyers when it can run more software?

[adventure_of_link]

That certainly explains why the rest of Fail 0verfl0w hasn't been caught yet.. guess Geohot must've been using a crappy proxy or something that day... oops.