Sony Files Lawsuit Against George Hotz aka geohot and Team fail0verflow

[bandit]

Sony has sent their MIB (lawyers in black suits) to the door step of George Hotz aka "geohot"!

Charges include:

• 18 U.S.C. § 1030(a)(2)(C) – Confidential Information On Computer
• 18 U.S.C. § 1030(a)(4) – Intent To Defraud And Obtain Value
• 18 U.S.C. § 1030(a)(5)(A) – Knowing Transmission of Code
• 18 U.S.C. § 1030(a)(5)(B) and (C) – Intentional and Reckless Damage And Loss
• 18 U.S.C. § 1030(a)(6)(A) – Trafficking in Password
• 18 U.S.C. § 1030(a)(7)(B) – Intent to Extort

Geohot recently posted the PS3 'root key', video of his 3.55 jailbreak along with his signing tools to install and run homebrew.

It seems Sony has decided they have had enough of this, and as of Jan. 11, 2011 have filed a lawsuit against George Hotz, which will be filed under the court docket of 'C 11-00167 JCS'.

Geohot has updated his website with two court papers, which you can also find attached here now:

As of 1/11/2011 7:20 PM EST, I have been served with papers, see below...

old front page, with relevant info removed, is here

contact me geohot ... gmail

any legal fund donation things you see are 100% fake as of now, don't get scammed

What is also interested is that the court filings also show that Sony is also going after the members of Team fail0verflow and are listed as named aka Bushing (Cantero), Sven (Sven Peter) and Marcan (Hector Martin) as defendants!

Marcan via Twitter:

Ah, so Sony decided to sue everyone under US law. Guess I won’t be visiting the US in a while…

Fail0verflow via Twitter:

Looks like Sony decided to ignore the facts and sue us all for it. See http://geohot.com/

Source: PSX-Scene via Geohot

Files attached via comments

[wraggster]

is this the time when they go after sites who also host any copyrightted filesmade with their SDK.

Thank god we dont, interesting times ahead.

[bandit]

Added more PDF files at http://reviews.dcemu.co.uk/sony-file...ow-351223.html

I don't think they will go for sites that host files as there are too many sites that will have it. They usually go for those who started it. Take them to court, scare them or win the case and no more hacks.