Monday, February 21, 2011

Sony's battle against the release of the console up degrees

The war against those who change their Sony PlayStation 3 is sharpened and also replicas of the hackers. The company has announced it will block online access to the devices which detect the use of programs unlock (jailbreak) or the use of pirated software. The company blocks access to PlayStation Network and Qriocity platform permanently.

This measure is in addition to the various demands made in court by Sony, from Spain to the United States against the release of its console. The latest success was achieved site closure GeoHot which issued a release system. The 21 year old behind the closed site should also provide all the hardware for the above tool.

In its application, Sony had invoked the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) that prohibits the release of the tools to protect a system. However, this principle was qualified last year by the U.S. Congress recognizing the impasse in the case that used to use other software on the device not provided by the manufacturer, if it were not pirated copies, or to facilitate interoperability .

The problem for Sony is that the unlocking software has been widely circulated on the Internet and is now in many hands. Well, now, GeoHot has launched a campaign to collect money to pay lawyers and the courts deal with Sony. "Sony has five lawyers and I, two. I want to fight Sony with legal weapons and have high-level lawyers," he explains on the site.

To justify his campaign, the author explains that he is against the piracy of copyrighted works but also combat the legitimate owner of a machine has banned certain uses, perfectly legal, by the same manufacturers. GeoHot refers to a software update released by Sony PlayStation preventing the installation since the console of legal programs such as Linux.

In this context, the publication of a message of truth not verified, raises concerns about the environment PlayStation. Some hackers calling themselves "anonymous agents of data protection," say they have deciphered and analyzed traffic data upload and download from PlayStation Network.

According to them, would be able not only to get the data of the owners of a console unlocked if not confuse the company changed its detection machines and cause blocking, inside of that campaign, consoles perfectly legal thinking is machine unlocked by methods not approved by Sony.

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