Sony Issue Cease and Desist Order For Devhook

[Lumir]

Simple answer to this... sony is trying to use a scare tactic to get most sites to take dev-hook down, if your smart you will realize that sony cant slap you with a case from anywere, if your site is hosted in africa sony cant do anything as they dont have rules/regulations regarding this software there.

The simple answer to this is torrents. even if they are in america it will give sony a hell of a time, and they will most likely find it to be not worth it to pursue.

[seesoe]

that will be hard on sony, its not like they gonna try to shut all the torrents down just cuz of devhook.

just give this a few weeks it will be forgotten

[bandit]

I dont know why everyone is panicking. Devhook is here to stay. If it wasnt for that one file (reboot.bin), there would be no problem AT ALL. If you noticed, ALL devhook releases are just that...devhook. BOOSTER requires us to get the firmware files ourselves. He NEVER includes them with his releases. Whoever uploaded that "devhook043fix" got BOOSTER and the website in trouble.

All BOOSTER and the admins of the website need to do is prevent idiots from uploading files that are either fakes or useless files.

[Wally]

Nahh sony have been looking for something to do for a long while..

Come on guys, they havent won yet!

I agree with indian cheese, changing the name of the product should void any problems (Maybe devhook producers could say they make devhook opensource and make it comply with the GPL rules and regulations then maybe it could work out.

Under no exception sony has made it clear that reverse engineering is illegal and will void your warranty. In this case we are lucky not to be in trouble for using PSPSDK as it was captured from the real SDK but changed to be legal.

Then again it makes sony look bad and PSP sales will drop if games are not allowed to be played on certain firmwares.

[RvLeshrac]

Well, I'm glad to see that a few others beat me to it.

Now, can we get all of the news sites to actually _read_ the submissions _before_ adding stupid commentary?

An application designed to mount ISOs is not illegal.
Decrypting the firmware is, again, not illegal.

Distributing copyrighted ISOs, however, is illegal.
Distributing decrypted copyrighted firmware dumps is, again, illegal.

Devhook has never been officially distributed with firmware dumps. The 'uploader' Sony refers to is not Booster, but whomever included their copyrighted software with Devhook.

If a random site distributes a copy of Alcohol with an MDS of Oblivion, Bethesda is fairly obviously not going to sue Alcohol Software.

I think that ties a ribbon around everything.

[ACID]

RvLeshrac i totaly agree with you and all the coments so far. sony is persuing air in this matter

[SnoopKatt]

If we're going to spend so much money on hardware, we should be able to do what we want with it. Sony is technically right since DevHook does contain some of their software (as much as we wish it didn't). But this sucks. But if the best turns out, maybe DevHook could legally continue if they get it to work without that file.

[cartmandude14]

What happened to the customer is always right? Sony has a really crappy marketing plan going for them right now. I don't see nintendo trying to stop ds homebrew. I don't see microsoft or macintosh sueing over people developng they're own software. It's a shame that something like the iso loader made to help psp users protect theyre investments in games has caused so much illegal use. but as long as I can play vice city stories i won't care. And homebrew emulators are coming along great.. so LONG LIVE DEVHOOK!

[RvLeshrac]

Personally, I'm waiting for wraggster to post a retraction of some of his ridiculous comments in the post.

[ayhoung]

i was wondering if you guys ever saw it from a sony perspective. The fact that if they did ever issue an unsigned code without umd emulation would probably impossible. It would just make it easier for hackers to find a way to exploit it. Of course, i was sad to hear devhook was being cancelled, but i guess you guys have to realize that the "umd-only" to "iso" devhook ratio is like 1-20, and sony prolly wudnt give a crap if all of the devhook ppl stopped supporting sony, since theyre all pirates naywas. just my two cents