Wednesday, January 12, 2011

Because PS3 Jailbreak: Sony Playstation moves against hackers

Console players revere him, Sony-manager rather not: The Hacker George Hotz, the iPhone, the iPad cracked and finally the Playstation 3. Now he gets in trouble with Sony's legal department. Which he wants to force a court to remove all information about the playstation Hack from the web. U.S. hacker using the pseudonym is geohot anger inside.

Because he has developed software that deal with the security barrier in the Sony Playstation 3 and other software can be installed on the game console, the Japanese group is now threatening with legal consequences. The company's lawyers have filed an application before a California court for a preliminary injunction against the 21-year, four members of the hacker group fail0verflow and 100 unknown.

Enjoy in hacker circles geohot, whose real name George Francis Hotz, and fail0verflow cult status. The hacker group had presented in December at the Chaos Communication Congress, how to extract the security key for the copy protection system of the PS3. Using this information, Hotz had managed to circumvent Sony's security system and to develop a method how to perform a so-called Jailbreak for the PS3.

Previously, Hotz was already known fact that he and Apple's iPhone jailbreak for iPad developed. The aim of the software modifications is always the same: The hackers make it do that you can install on each of the manufacturers of hermetically sealed hardware software that the inspection bodies of the companies have not run through software that is not in accordance with the guidelines of the company .

Because this in the case of the PS3 including the operating software of the console decrypted to be changed and then written back to the console needs to take Sony's lawyers before the hackers now that they had infringed the copyright. Moreover, the hackers are accused of violations of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) and the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA).

sue instead Hotz same, Sony's lawyers pursue a different strategy. In its application for preliminary injunction calling for the hackers to remove all information and downloads to the Playstation hack of its website. After receiving the attorney letter Hotz this request was complied with immediately.

After he had discussed the charges with his lawyer, he switched access to its website, however, again. In addition to the information on the jailbreak for the PS3, he has put Sony's lawyer letter in PDF format in the center of its web site. Hotz has also pointed out that all possible widespread appeals for him at the current time fraudulent attempts and he does not call for donations.

The hearing on the request of Sony's lawyers for Wednesday 12 January has been set. Compared to the PS3 Portal "Playstation 3 News," Hotz said already, he will abide by the decision of the court, because no matter how that will turn out. Whether Sony can get it to actually to eradicate the information about the playstation jailbreak from the network, may however be doubted.

Jailbreak fans have long been brought to safety instructions and software, and elsewhere in the network is stored - keyword Streisand effect. For Sony's legal department, it would be quite impossible to collect these pieces again. mak
Posted by Manlio Gandolfi at 5:35 PM

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