Sony Issue Cease and Desist Order For Devhook

[publicprivates]

you guys are acting stupid. sony makes a great portable and you should respect them. You should be sayin stuff like fu** sony or anything because without them you wouldnt have the friggin portable.

[GobboFett]

Companies have issued cease and desist orders before where they have no legal right to do so check out http://www.prehensile.com/tales/meatloom/fruitlove.htm for a story of a parody site and Fruit of the Loom's illegal harrasment of the site owner's. I am not sayign weather what Sony is doing is legal or not but big companies will try and bully smaller people illegally because they have the money to do so.

My god Just checked out this harrowing tale of one guy Vs. a big corporation (ala Sony)...

It's amazing how quickly those big shots backed down and became all friendly when the law ACTUALLY got involved. I believe this could work out the same for Booster and DevHook. As previously stated in this thread, Booster NEVER distributed the file in question (reboot.bin) in DevHook and from my personal experience have never seen it included/packaged with DevHook (bar psp-hacks.com, but they don't count ). It is very true that decrypting Firmware is not illegal, I mean these files are provided BY SONY to users for users.
I myself can say that DevHook has made me find new love for my PSP (thank you MGA2 & MM:MHX ) and will continue to buy games IF and only if I don't need to upgrade from 1.50. Then again, if you get into legal mumbo jumbo with code, who knows

Well, this discussion is very heated now and you can expect more posts to come so to Sony I say; Middle finger...sit and rotate

[GobboFett]

you guys are acting stupid. sony makes a great portable and you should respect them. You should be sayin stuff like fu** sony or anything because without them you wouldnt have the friggin portable.

Oh really? I wouldn't have a portable console? What about the GP2X? This beast was directly engineered for Homebrew and ALREADY has a PSOne emu. I mean the PSP features are pretty sub-par and you need to convert to MS-Pro Duo's to get data stored plus the lack of really stick out good games and the price... I have every right to say F*** YOU SONY!

[despoteuodia]

The Japanese Site which hosts the Devhook application have been slapped with a Cease and Desist Order over the Devhook app which lets users use different firmware on their PSP, (This site only EVER linked to the UMD versions of Devhook unlike other sites that linked to the ISO Version).

Heres what Ookm posted on his site:

Reboot_1.50.bin is the copyrighted material by SONY, that is mixed with DevHook0.43fix.
Warning from SCE to those who up-load DevHook0.43fix comes.
Moreover, please annul it at once when downloaded 0.43fix is preserved at hand, and it uses it.
Not seeing this knows and there is a possibility to use, too.
Please inform me of this when there is an owner in surroundings.
Moreover, the main body of DevHook and the relation file of all versions were deleted from this site.
As a result, opening DevHook on this site to the public is completely stopped

Does this mean Sony are to go after all sites hosting the ISO version of Devhook, well i can see it happening, im also concerned about the UMD version, it is legal because it doesnt run ISOs but we will have to see.

What is apparent is that some members of the Homebrew Scene by posting the ISO version have helped Sony strike a blow at thier own sites, all for a few extra hits.

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well i dont think sony is that dumb, if they get rid of the umd version they prevent people from playing higher games, sony doesnt want to cut sales, rihgt?
they just want to stop iso piracy. if sony has any smarts they will realise that thousands of people only have psps (and bought games) because of homebrew.

[vettacossx]

IF ITS JUST THIS ONE ILLEGAL FILE! THAT COULD SHUT DOWN SITES ELIMAINATE USING SONYS VERSION OF THE FILE I.E. GAMESHARKS 1.5 FIRMEWARE!!!

Reboot_1.50.bin is the copyrighted material by SONY, that is mixed with DevHook0.43fix.

i want to just touch on the whole:
" custom firmeware thing "
and ask? should we ever host news here at DCemu about them knowing full well sony may actually yhave a legal basis of whitch to **** with us upon?
Q: #2
can we replace the 1.5 reboot.bin with a gameshark 1.5 reboot.bin.....i mean yes sony own the official SONY MADE FIRMEWARE but they dont own the FIRMEWARE FORMAT?!!! it was developed originally for DIGITAL CAMERAS!!!! n such so is booster in trouble??? will he even be given an oppertunity to try and fix this legal issue??? is SETX in trouble or any other apps that MOD theese so called illegal files???? and IS A NON-COPYWRITED VERSION of 1.5 reboot.bin available in firmewares like tyhe GAMESHARK FIRMEWARE 1.5??? theese seem to be things we may want to PONDER in the days to come.....it will be interesting to say the least....watching this all unfold!

[publicprivates]

no one had a problem like this when the gameboy came around. No one whined when the nes couldnt play homebrew.

[vettacossx]

yeah and did eather of those system compare ....did they run homebrew? NO!!!...besides the fact that your comment had NOTHING to do with dev hook and this issue WE take very seriousley....the nintendo hand helds have always BEEN SURE to be behind TECHNOLOGICAL times I.E. snes is out you get a nes handheld black and white(gb)....64 is released now you can have a COLOR nes handheld ( gbc)...the game cube comes out....FINALLY youy can have a snes handheld!1 lmao...GBA...now just before the wee....you get a HALF ASS IMITATION OF THE n64 oONLY 32BIT! lol...with touch screen like my 1982 microwave oven! yipp-****ing-eee get real i dont flame ofteb but comments like your tend to bring a person to the forum "table" to state the obvious.....SONY MADE A 128 bit system with a 333mhz capability and LCD screen.....so what ever in the world would cause people to take advantage of this...you dont see??? was the dreamcast a COMMERCIALL FAILURE YES it was...but it was also one of the biggest HB systems i still use mine today ill bet my dreamcast can emulate ANYTHING the nintendo WIIIII can and it prob did it years before 2....nintendo is LIGHT YEARS away from sony in price yes....but also in technology keep that in mind **** innovative i want QUALITY GFX AND HARDWARE!!

[vettacossx]

yeah and did eather of those system compare ....did they run homebrew? NO!!!...besides the fact that your comment had NOTHING to do with dev hook and this issue WE take very seriousley....the nintendo hand helds have always BEEN SURE to be behind TECHNOLOGICAL times I.E. snes is out you get a nes handheld black and white(gb)....64 is released now you can have a COLOR nes handheld ( gbc)...the game cube comes out....FINALLY youy can have a snes handheld!1 lmao...GBA...now just before the wee....you get a HALF ASS IMITATION OF THE n64 oONLY 32BIT! lol...with touch screen like my 1982 microwave oven! yipp-****ing-eee get real i dont flame ofteb but comments like your tend to bring a person to the forum "table" to state the obvious.....SONY MADE A 128 bit system with a 333mhz capability and LCD screen.....so what ever in the world would cause people to take advantage of this...you dont see??? was the dreamcast a COMMERCIALL FAILURE YES it was...but it was also one of the biggest HB systems i still use mine today ill bet my dreamcast can emulate ANYTHING the nintendo WIIIII can and it prob did it years before 2....nintendo is LIGHT YEARS away from sony in price yes....but also in technology keep that in mind **** innovative i want QUALITY GFX AND HARDWARE!!

[Edshugeo]

no one had a problem like this when the gameboy came around. No one whined when the nes couldnt play homebrew.

I never owned a Gameboy nor a NES, though I've played both. Their shortcomings were never my concern as my money was never involved.

Perhaps if there were homebrew scenes for each, I would'a been more inclined.

[jwilds73]

This also depends on the country laws that the host site is based in. He isn't reselling the files he is simply redistributing them with his program. This files were distributed freely by Sony and Sony isn't coming down on other sites for hosting it's firmware updates. I hope he gets legal advice before taking any action.