wraggster
February 6th, 2011, 14:35
Geohot may soon have company while facing the wrath of Sony. George Hotz has had todefend himself (http://www.joystiq.com/2011/01/14/george-hotz-i-got-sued-for-making-sony-mad/) in court against the company since the beginning of this year, as Sony attempts to track down (http://www.joystiq.com/2011/01/12/sony-begins-legal-action-against-ps3-hackers/) 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 (http://psx-scene.com/forums/733914-post1.html), the company is pursuing this information, subpoenaing sites like the recently-DMCA'd (http://www.joystiq.com/2011/01/31/github-removes-ps3-jailbreak-files-after-sony-dmca-takedown/) 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.youtube.com/watch?v=aaEovHVryWg."
http://www.joystiq.com/2011/02/05/sony-looking-to-expand-jailbreak-lawsuit-to-more-defendants/
According to documents retrieved by PSX-SCENE (http://psx-scene.com/forums/733914-post1.html), the company is pursuing this information, subpoenaing sites like the recently-DMCA'd (http://www.joystiq.com/2011/01/31/github-removes-ps3-jailbreak-files-after-sony-dmca-takedown/) 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.youtube.com/watch?v=aaEovHVryWg."
http://www.joystiq.com/2011/02/05/sony-looking-to-expand-jailbreak-lawsuit-to-more-defendants/